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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