Tom Robbins

Novelist, Author

1936 –

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Who is Tom Robbins?

Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins is an American author. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies", often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from carefully researched bizarre facts. His novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.

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Born
Jul 22, 1936
Blowing Rock
Also known as
  • Thomas Robbins
Children
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Hargrave Military Academy
  • Washington and Lee University
Lived in
  • North Carolina
  • Washington
  • Seattle

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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