About Tom Robbins
Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies". Robbins had lived in La Conner, Washington, since 1970, where he wrote nine of his books. His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir". Robbins attended Warsaw High School (class of 1949) and Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Virginia, where he won the Senior Essay Medal. While working on his first novel, Robbins worked the weekend copy desk of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Rinzler later discovered it was Jitterbug Perfume. In late 1957, Robbins enrolled at Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), a school of art, drama, and music, which later became Virginia Commonwealth University.
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