Tom Robbins (1) (1932–)
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Tom Robbins is a writer, novelist, editor, and journalist. He was born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina on July 22, 1936. Robbins studied journalism at Washington and Lee for two years and later graduated from the Richmond Professional Institute in 1961. He attended the Graduate School of Far vis mere Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. From 1957 to 1960, Robbins served in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Korea as a meteorologist. During his years in the service he took courses in Japanese culture and aesthetics in Tokyo. After the military, Robbins took a job as a copy editor at the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Robbins later worked as feature editor and art critic at the Seattle Times and part time at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Robbins published the novel, Another Roadside Attraction in 1971. Other books include Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Still Life With Woodpecker. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was made into a 1996 film directed by Gus Van Sant. Robbins has also acted in such films as Made in Heaven and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. A documentary entitled, Tom Robbins: A Writer in the Rain was made in 1997. In 2014, his title Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) Tom Robbins is a Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in & around Seattle since 1962. (Publisher Provided) vis mindre
Værker af Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins: The visual arts, 1963-1964 2 eksemplarer
Associated Works
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Bidragyder — 551 eksemplarer
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics (1996) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 55 eksemplarer
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Robbins, Thomas Eugene
- Fødselsdato
- 1932-07-22
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA
- Bopæl
- Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
La Conner, Washington, USA - Uddannelse
- Virginia Commonwealth University (BA|1959|Richmond Professional Institute)
University of Washington
Washington and Lee University - Erhverv
- novelist
journalist
art critic - Organisationer
- US Air Force
Marijuana Policy Project - Agent
- Phoebe Larmore (Phoebe Larmore Literary Agency)
Medlemmer
Discussions
Tom Robbins: the biggest fraud in literary history? i Awful Lit. (december 2017)
Anmeldelser
Still Life with Woodpecker af Tom Robbins
I've had a few conversations that remind me of this book: always with a fast-talker armed with cheesy jokes, half-baked notions, and conspiracy theories, salted with tasteless stereotypes, but interesting and weird enough that I want to hear just a little more. But I do always feel relief when it's over...
I enjoyed this book shortly after its paperback was published, but not so much when I tried to read it years later.
Tom Robbins books all fit into a pattern: beautiful woman needs direction/help, and an eccentric man uses sex to unlock her mind and give her wisdom. Robbins will also focus on a particular thing - in this book it is redheads - and philosophize upon it at length. So basically if you've read one of his books you've read them all, and this is by far the best of the bunch.
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 14
- Also by
- 11
- Medlemmer
- 34,131
- Popularitet
- #558
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 437
- ISBN
- 280
- Sprog
- 14
- Udvalgt
- 21
