Tom Robbins | |
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![]() Robbins at Booksmith in San Francisco, 2005 | |
Born | Thomas Eugene Robbins July 22, 1932 Blowing Rock, North Carolina, U.S. |
Died | February 9, 2025 La Conner, Washington, U.S. | (aged 92)
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Genre | Postmodernism |
Thomas Eugene Robbins (July 22, 1932 – February 9, 2025) was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas").[1] Robbins had lived in La Conner, Washington, since 1970, where he wrote nine of his books.[2] His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant.[3] His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir".