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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball ...

In novels like "Jitterbug Perfume," the writer Tom Robbins dazzled readers with colorful characters and effusive language. He died over the weekend at 92. Tom Vitale has this appreciation. TOM VITALE: ...

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 ...

Tom Robbins dazzled millions of readers with the whimsy and imagination in his bestselling novels, such as 1984's Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, from 1990, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a ...

“It was more important to Tom to be right than to be famous — ‘right’ meaning not just factually accurate but also morally correct. Tom was not a prophet or zealot; he lived in a complicated city like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Tom Robbins poses while at the book fair in Chateau de Candz, in the Loire region of France, in 2007. (Ulf Andersen / Getty ...

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and "Jitterbug Perfume," has died. He was ...