Named "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the Financial Times of London, Tom Robbins is the bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, among other books. Prior to writing his unique brand of "serio-comedies" — comic novels with a more serious undercurrent — he worked at several newspapers. He says that it was while writing a review of the rock band The Doors that he found his literary voice.