During the next five years in Seattle (minus a year spent in New York City researching a book on Jackson Pollock) he worked for the Seattle Times as an art critic.
at the Far East Institute of the University of Washington. In 1962, Robbins moved to Seattle to seek an M.A. After graduating with honors from RPI in 1959 and indulging in some hitchhiking, Robbins joined the staff of the Times-Dispatch as a copy editor. He also worked nights on the sports desk of the daily Richmond Times-Dispatch.
He served as an editor and columnist for the college newspaper, Proscript, from 1958 to 1959. 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. Thomas Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is a best-selling and prolific American novelist.
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