Premise: Gravity 's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon . Thomas Pynchon . For Gravity 's Rainbow , Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s , he began composing the novels for which he is best known : V. ( 1963 ) , The Crying of Lot 49 ( 1966 ) , Gravity 's Rainbow ( 1973 ) , and Mason & Dixon ( 1997 ) .
Hypothesis: Thomas Pynchon died before writing the novel Gravity's Rainbow.
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