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{{Short description|American writer (1932β2025)}} {{About|the American novelist|other uses|Thomas Robbins (disambiguation){{!}}Thomas Robbins}} {{Distinguish|Tim Robbins}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Tom Robbins | image = Tom Robbins.jpg | caption = Robbins at Booksmith in [[San Francisco]], 2005 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Thomas Eugene Robbins | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|7|22|mf=yes}} | birth_place = [[Blowing Rock, North Carolina]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|02|09|1932|07|22|mf=yes}} | death_place = [[La Conner, Washington]], U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist| * Novelist * short story writer * essayist }} | genre = [[Postmodernism]] | movement = | spouse = | children = | website = }} '''Thomas Eugene Robbins''' (July 22, 1932 β February 9, 2025) was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "[[comedy drama]]s").<ref>{{cite web|title=Tom Robbins|url=http://www.famousauthors.org/tom-robbins|work=Famous Authors|publisher=FamousAuthors.org|access-date=August 15, 2012|author=FamousAuthors.org|year=2012}}</ref> Robbins had lived in [[La Conner, Washington]], since 1970, where he wrote nine of his books.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Northwest Prime Time |url=http://northwestprimetime.com/news/2016/apr/30/tom-robbins/ |access-date=April 5, 2022 |website=northwestprimetime.com}}</ref> His 1976 novel [[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)|''Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'']] was adapted into the [[Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film)|1993 film version]] by [[Gus Van Sant]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Sant |first=Gus Van |title=Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |date=May 20, 1994 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106834/ |type=Comedy, Drama, Romance |publisher=New Line Cinema, Fourth Vision |access-date=April 5, 2022}}</ref> His last work, published in 2014, was ''[[Tibetan Peach Pie]]'', a self-declared "un-memoir".
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