The novel Mason & Dixon was written by Thomas Pynchon.
Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by U.S. author Thomas Pynchon published in 1997 . 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 ) .