Premise: Thomas Pynchon . 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 ) . Pynchon 's most recent novel , Bleeding Edge , was published on September 17 , 2013 .
Hypothesis: Thomas Pynchon wrote at least one novel.
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