Tom robbins born

Thomas Eugene Robbins was born on July 22, and is a best-selling and prolific American novelist. Tom Robbins has lived in La Conner, Washington since , where he has written nine best-selling books. Tom Robbins's latest work, published in , is Tibetan Peach Pie, which is a self-declared "un-memoir". The Tom Robbins family resided in Blowing Rock before moving to Warsaw, Virginia, when the author was still a young boy.

Tom robbins today

Tom Robbins was discharged in and returned to Richmond, Virginia, where his poetry readings at the Rhinoceros Coffee House led to a reputation among the local bohemian scene. In late , Tom Robbins enrolled at Richmond Professional Institute, a school of art, drama, and music, which later became Virginia Commonwealth University. Tom Robbins served as an editor and columnist for the college newspaper, Proscript, from to Tom Robbins was a real southern gentleman, and welcomed intellectual discourse about his theme, characters, and intentions, from the inside.

Tom Robbins took the process of conception, research, trial and error, moving things around, changing voices and pitch very seriously, wrote slowly and carefully, revised constantly, developing, refining and evolving this novel over the course of about two years. In , Tom Robbins was named one of the Best Writers of the 20th Century by Writer's Digest magazine, while the legendary Italian critic Fernanda Pivano called Tom Robbins "the most dangerous writer in the world".

Tom Robbins was a friend of Terence McKenna, whose influence appears evident in a couple of his books. Tom Robbins spent time with Timothy Leary and the author has said that one of the protagonists in Jitterbug Perfume exhibited certain characteristics of Leary's personality; Tom Robbins has acknowledged using LSD with Leary.