The celebrated comic novelist wrote best-sellers like Another Roadside Attraction and Jitterbug Perfume while maintaining a devoted underground following

The author of bizarre, hilarious, and very often, controversial novels, Tom Robbins has died at the age of 92. His death was confirmed by his son, Fleetwood Robbins, though no exact cause of death was given at this time.

His first novel, “Another Roadside Attraction,” was published in 1971 when Robbins was 39 -- more than three decades after declaring to his parents, at age 5, that he’d be a writer.