Thomas Pynchon died before publishing several short stories.
==== The Crying of Lot 49 ====In an April 1964 letter to his agent, Candida Donadio, Pynchon wrote that he was facing a creative crisis, with four novels in progress, announcing: "If they come out on paper anything like they are inside my head then it will be the literary event of the millennium
 A description of the soon-to-be published novel appeared on Amazon purporting to be written by Pynchon himself

