Tom Robbins

For the American actor, see Tom Alan Robbins.
Not to be confused with Tim Robbins.
Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins, 2005
Tom Robbins, 2005
BornThomas Eugene Robbins
(1932-07-22) July 22, 1932 (age 92)
Blowing Rock, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • essayist
GenrePostmodernism

Thomas Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1932)[1] is an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy drama").[2] Tom Robbins has lived in La Conner, Washington since 1970, where he has written nine books.[3] His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant.[4] His latest work, published in 2014, is Tibetan Peach Pie, which is a self-declared "un-memoir".

  1. ^ See Library of Congress records (2012) and Oxford companion to American literature (1995). The discrepancy between Robbins' year of birth appearing in the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data results from previous inaccurate reporting and the LoC rule prohibiting correction of CIP data. Robbins claims he was born in 1932 (see Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life, 2014 or Conversations With Tom Robbins, 2011). See Thomas Robbins in the 1940 US census living in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.
  2. ^ FamousAuthors.org (2012). "Tom Robbins". Famous Authors. FamousAuthors.org. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  3. ^ "Northwest Prime Time". northwestprimetime.com. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  4. ^ Sant, Gus Van (1994-05-20), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Comedy, Drama, Romance), New Line Cinema, Fourth Vision, retrieved 2022-04-05