Tom Robbins

Biography

Thomas Eugene Robbins is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies", also known as "comedy-drama. In late 1957, he enrolled at Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), a school of art, drama, and music, which later became Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1966, Robbins was contacted and then met with Doubleday's West Coast Editor, Luthor Nichols, who asked Robbins about writing a book on Northwest art. Instead Robbins told Nichols he wanted to write a novel and pitched the idea of what was to become Another Roadside Attraction.

Known For

Breakfast of Champions

Made in Heaven

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Anthem

Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson

A Not So Still Life

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket

All Movies (7)

• A Not So Still Life2010 · as Self
• Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson2003 · as Self
• Breakfast of Champions1999 · as Pesky Weber
• Anthem1997 · as Self
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues1994 · as Narrator (voice)
• Made in Heaven1987 · as Mario the Toymaker
• The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket1986 · as Jeffrey