Best-selling novelist Tom Robbins has died. He was 92. The author, best known for work like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Jitterbug Perfume,” died Sunday at his home in Washington.

Tom Robbins, a one-time Richmonder who became an acclaimed novelist known for such witty works as “Another Roadside Attraction” and “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” died Sunday at 92.

Tom Robbins, the bestselling novelist whose early books defined the 1960s for a generation and whose publishing career spanned more than 50 years, died Sunday at age 92, according to his wife.

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