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    Novels bygd Tom Robbins:  

    • Another Roadside Attraction ()
    • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues ()
    • Still-Life with Woodpecker ()
    • Jitterbug Perfume ()
    • Skinny Legs and All ()
    • Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas ()

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Tom Robbins

    American writer (–)

    This article is about the American novelist. For other uses, see Thomas Robbins.

    Not to be confused with Tim Robbins.

    Thomas Eugene Robbins (July 22, – February 9, ) was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas").[1] Robbins had lived in La Conner, Washington, since , where he wrote nine of his books.[2] His novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the film version by Gus Van Sant.[3] His last work, published in , was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir".

    Early life

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    Robbins was born on July 22, ,[4] in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, to George Thomas Robbins and Katherine Belle Robinson. Both of his grandfathers were Southern Baptist preachers. The Robbins family lived in Blowing Rock before moving to Warsaw, Virginia, when the author was still a young boy.[5] In adulthood, Robbins has described his young sel

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    Pacific Northwest novelist Tom Robbins, profoundly provoked and inspired by what he called the "s renaissance," is often hailed as a comic/spiritual chronicler of that tumultuous decade. But his nine novels and numerous writings spanning a career of more than 40 years place him in a broader perspective as a futurist, a sharp-eyed observer of American aesthetics, and fanciful cultural gadfly.

    Born in the Sweet Sunny South

    The grandchild of two Baptist preachers, Thomas Eugene Robbins was born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, on July 22, (Sources have differed as to Robbins's birth year with many, including an earlier version of this essay, giving it as However, Robbins's memoir Tibetan Peach Pie confirmed that he was born in , and that date has since been generally accepted.) His mother, Katherine Robinson Robbins, was a nurse who wrote religious stories for children and encouraged Tom to read and write in early childhood. His father, George Thomas Robbins, was a power company