Author Tom Robbins poses while at the book fair in Chateau de Candz, in the Loire region of France, in 2007. (Ulf Andersen / Getty Images) Tom Robbins, a 1970s counterculture author hailed as “the ...

Tom Robbins, the counter-cultural author of novels such as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Jitterbug Perfume has died at the age of 92. The news was announced by the writer’s wife, Alexa Robbins, in a ...

Donald Barthelme once said, "Those who never attempt the absurd never achieve the impossible." Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker; Jitterbug Perfume; etc.) has made a career of attempting and ...

It feels like just about every month I’m coming here to remember a recently deceased writer who had some profound effect on my life as a reader. This month it’s Tom Robbins, author of numerous classic ...

Novelist Tom Robbins, whose counterculture works included “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Jitterbug Perfume,” died Sunday. He was 92. Robbins’ death was announced by his wife, Alexa Robbins, on ...

Tom Robbins, a 1970s counterculture author hailed as “the most dangerous writer in the world” by a leading Italian critic and named one of the 100 best writers of the 20th century by Writer’s Digest ...