Thomas Eugene “Tom” Robbins (22 July 22 1936 – ?) is an American author. His best-selling novels are often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from carefully researched bizarre facts. He has written nine novels — the most famous of which is Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a story about Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with a mutation of enormously large thumbs that she decides to use for hitchhiking to New York. The novel covers various topics including free love, drug use, political rebellion, animal right, body odor, and religion. It was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant. (WIKIPEDIA)