His father had the same condition, and would isolate himself in a dark room for days at a time to recover. Robbins suffers from familial hemiplegic migraine. His works have been published in nine languages. There are forty-two books, and it is still being published. Endworld is a science fiction series under his own name started in 1986.Robbins has since stopped using pen names on his own works, and WILDERNESS is now under his own name. Started in 1990 under his David Thompson pen name, the series has nearly eighty books to date. Wilderness is the generational saga of a Mountain Man and his Shoshone wife.He is known for two current long-running series. His writing has been critically praised by the Pulp Rack, among others. He spent a year and a half in Europe, traveling through France, Italy, Greece and Germany. Īt one time or another Robbins has lived in Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Montana, Colorado and the Pacific Northwest. Later still he entered law enforcement and then took to writing full-time. He worked as an announcer and engineer and later as a program director at various radio stations. After his honorable discharge he attended college and went into broadcasting. Īt seventeen Robbins enlisted in the United States Air Force and became a sergeant. Water was brought in from an outdoor pump, and they used an outhouse. Robbins spent many of his teen years on a farm owned by his Mennonite great aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Until he was eight he lived in an outlying area of Philadelphia.
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