Tim Sandlin (born 1950) is an American

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and

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. Born in Oklahoma, Sandlin spent his early summers in

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while his father worked seasonally for

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. Sandlin worked over 40 entry-level jobs including driving an ice cream truck, skinning elk, cooking in a

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, trail inventory for the Forest Service, caretaker of rental cabins, gardener for the Rockefellers, pizza parlor manager, belt buckle buffer, and multiple dishwashing jobs. Throughout this period he lived most of the year on public lands, first in a tent and later in a

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. He has published 10 novels and a book of columns. Three of his books, '' Skipped Parts'', ''Sorrow Floats'', and ''Sex and Sunsets'', have been produced as movies. His other novels include ''Western Swing'', ''Rowdy in Paris'', ''Honey Don’t'', ''Lydia'', ''The Fable of Bing'', ''Social Blunders'', ''Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty'', and ''The Pyms, Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole''. He has also written 11 screenplays for hire. ''Sex and Sunsets'' served as the basis for the screenplay of the 2013 Canadian film '' The Right Kind of Wrong''. ''Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty'' and ''Rowdy in Paris'' are in pre-production for movies. He lives in

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with his wife, Carol, and daughter, Leila.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Sex and Sunsets'', 1987, current reprint by

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Landmark * ''Western Swing'', 1988, current reprint by

Landmark * ''Skipped Parts'', 1992, current reprint by

Landmark * ''Sorrow Floats'', 1992, current reprint by

Landmark * ''Social Blunders'', 1997, current reprint by

Landmark * ''Lydia, 2011, current,

Landmark * ''Honey Don't'', G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003, * ''Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty,'' current reprint by Oothoon Press 2014 * ''The Fable of Bing,'' Oothoon Press, 2014, ISBN 9780989395755 * ''The Pyms: Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole''", Oothoon Press, 1991 * * * ''Lydia'', Sourcebooks Landmark, 2011,

Essays

*''The Pyms: Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole'', Jackson Hole Magazine, 1991 * ''Somewhat True Tales of Jackson Hole'', Bluechip Publishers, 2021

References

External links

Sandlin's official homepage

Author's blog

"An Interview with Tim Sandlin", ''Bookslut'', January 2007

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