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Welcome to the home page of author and photographer Tom Graves. Enter at your own risk. For
the brave of heart, take your boots off and don't sit too close to the fire. Over the years,
I've managed to write a thing or two and actually convince people to pay me for it. I am the author of Crossroads: The
Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson in which I try to set the record straight once and for all on what
little is truly known about this most-revered of bluesmen. I am also the author of the definitive novel about arm wrestling
-- okay the only novel about arm wrestling -- entitled Pullers. I am told
that it can still be purchased from amazon.com. If you want to really impress your friends and neighbors, I will be glad to
inscribe (I love that word) a copy of either Crossroads or Pullers for you. Get out your wallet and click
on the appropriate page on this web site.
To bring you up to speed, in addition
to being the author of Crossroads and Pullers, I am the former editor and scribe
for Rock & Roll Disc magazine, which was published from 1987-1992. I have published in a bunch of other magazines,
some you've probably even heard of such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, American
History magazine, The Oxford American, Musician, The New Leader, and so on. In addition, I am a photographer whose
work has been published in Playboy (it was a photograph of a writer -- don't go getting any ideas), Southern Exposure, The
Chouteau Review, and The Jackson Daily News. I am now offering my photographic work for sale on this website, which
I hope you will check out.
My latest endeavor is a documentary film about the infamous televised debates between
Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. that aired during the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1968. I am part
of a filmmaking team along with Emmy and Grammy Award-winning documentarians Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville. In the
future more information will be posted about this film.
This web site is intended to display some of my wares,
so to speak, and introduce those of you out there in the luminiferous ether to both me and my work. Signed copies of
my books can be purchased through this web site, as stated my photographs can also be purchased, and there are many other
bits and pieces of things to read and check out. I also may be reached via email at:
pullers2004@yahoo.com
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