thomas pynchon composed at least one novel
after publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s  he began composing the novels for which he is best known  v lrb 1963 rrb  the crying of lot 49 lrb 1966 rrb  gravity s rainbow lrb 1973 rrb  and mason  dixon lrb 1997 rrb