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Tim Sandlin (born 1950) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
Born in Oklahoma, Sandlin spent his early summers in Wyoming while his father worked seasonally for Grand Teton National Park. Sandlin 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 eight novels and a book of columns. He written eleven screenplays for hire, two of which have been made into movies: Floating Away (1998), which was based on his novel Sorrow Floats and Skipped Parts (2001), based upon the novel of the same name. "Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty" and "Rowdy in Paris" are currently in print (as of late, 2008).
He lives in Jackson, Wyoming.
Novels
- Sex and Sunsets, H. Holt, 1987, ISBN 9780805001686
- Western Swing, Holt, 1988, ISBN 9780805004588 (reprint Fawcett Columbine, 1995, ISBN 9780449909706)
- Skipped Parts, Ivy Books, 1992, ISBN 9780804108157 (reprint Riverhead Books, 1997, ISBN 9781573226011)
- Sorrow Floats, Henry Holt, 1992, ISBN 9780805016277 (reprint Riverhead Books, 1997, ISBN 9781573226042)
- Social Blunders, Riverhead Books, 1997, ISBN 9781573225885
- Honey Don't, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003, ISBN 9780399149986
Essays
- The Pyms: Unauthorized Tales of Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole Magazine, 1991
Total Books: 35