In late 1957, Robbins enrolled at Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), a school of art, drama, and music, which later became Virginia Commonwealth University. He was discharged in 1957 and returned to Richmond, Virginia, where his poetry readings at the Rhinoceros Coffee House led to a reputation among the local bohemian scene. In 1953, he enlisted in the Air Force after receiving his draft notice, spending a year as a meteorologist in Korea, followed by two years in the Special Weather Intelligence unit of the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska.

The following year he enrolled at Washington and Lee University to major in journalism, leaving at the end of his sophomore year after being disciplined by his fraternity for bad behavior and failing to earn a letter in basketball. Robbins attended Warsaw High School (class of 1949) and Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Virginia, where he won the Senior Essay Medal. In adulthood, Robbins has described his young self as a ' hillbilly'. The Robbins family resided in Blowing Rock before moving to Warsaw, Virginia, when the author was still a young boy.

Both of his grandfathers were Baptist preachers. Robbins was born on July 22, 1932, in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, to George Thomas Robbins and Katherine Belle Robinson. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues has been adapted into a movie that shares the same name by Gus Van Sant in 1993. His latest work, published in 2014, is Tibetan Peach Pie, which is a self-declared 'un-memoir'. Tom Robbins has lived in La Conner, Washington since 1970, where he has written nine best-selling books. His most notable works are 'seriocomedies' (also known as ' comedy drama'), such as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Urn:oclc:869556211 Scandate 20111115070717 Scanner Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is a best-selling and prolific American novelist. OL94859W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.79 Pages 406 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0553348981 Urn:lcp:jitterbugperfume00robb:epub:b877a221-9b26-4cf0-a164-94a4e76f4ea6 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier jitterbugperfume00robb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2b868w5v Isbn 0553268449ĩ780553268447 Lccn 84045233 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:40:35 Boxid IA108715 Boxid_2 CH120121108-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Bantam pbk.

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