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Tom Robbins

Born

in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, The United States

July 22, 1932

Died

February 09, 2025

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Memoir

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Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington from 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".Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington from 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"....more

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Books by Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume
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4.23 avg rating — 78,628 ratings — published 1984 — 50 editions

Still Life with Woodpecker
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4.04 avg rating — 81,795 ratings — published 1980 — 65 editions

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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3.78 avg rating — 55,991 ratings — published 1976 — 75 editions

Skinny Legs and All
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4.07 avg rating — 43,299 ratings — published 1990 — 48 editions

Another Roadside Attraction
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3.99 avg rating — 35,102 ratings — published 1971 — 50 editions

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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4.04 avg rating — 28,828 ratings — published 2000 — 56 editions

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
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3.76 avg rating — 22,852 ratings — published 1994 — 47 editions

Villa Incognito
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3.69 avg rating — 19,138 ratings — published 2003 — 48 editions

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
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3.90 avg rating — 7,026 ratings — published 2014 &

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Pacific Northwest novelist Tom Robbins, profoundly provoked and inspired by what he called the "1960s 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, 1932. (Sources have differed as to Robbins's birth year with many, including an earlier version of this essay, giving it as 1936. However, Robbins's 2014 memoir Tibetan Peach Pie confirmed that he was born in 1932, 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 executive. Tom was the oldest of four children: A younger sister died short