Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist renowned for his seriocomedies (also known as comedy dramas). He resided in La Conner, Washington from 1970, a place where he crafted nine of his remarkable books. Among his celebrated works is the 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which was transformed into a film in 1993 by Gus Van Sant. His final piece, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-proclaimed "un-memoir".