Tim Sandlin
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Tim Sandlin was born in Oklahoma in 1950 and spent his summer rite-of-passage years in Wyoming while his Dad worked seasonally for Grand Teton National Park. He worked over 40 entry-level jobs including driving an ice cream truck, skinning elk, cooking in a Chinese restaurant, 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 Cheyenne tipi. He has published seven novels and the forthcoming Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty, and a book of columns The Pyms: Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole, 1991. He wrote eleven screenplays for hire; two have been made into movies - Floating Away (based on Sorrow Floats), Showtime Cable Network, 1998 and Skipped Parts, TriMark Pictures, 2001. He recently adopted a little girl from China. and is now living happily (indoors) with his family (wife, Carol; son, Kyle; daughter, Leila) in Jackson, Wyoming.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- Sex and Sunsets (1987)
- Western Swing (1988)
- Skipped Parts (1991)
- Sorrow Floats (1992)
- Social Blunders (1995)
- Honey Don't (2003)
- Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty (2007)
[edit] Other works
- The Pyms: Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole (1991), a book of columns
