Robbie Robinson

Robbie Robinson was born Harold Banta Robinson in Newport, Rhode Island on August 5, 1946, son of a US Naval military officer. He spent the first 15 years of his life traveling the world to wherever his father was stationed. He spent his pre-teen years in Morocco and was there during its independence from France. He attended school in England during this time and traveled with his family throughout Europe on vacations. His family moved to San Miguel de Allende, in Mexico in the 1960's when his...See more

Robbie Robinson was born Harold Banta Robinson in Newport, Rhode Island on August 5, 1946, son of a US Naval military officer. He spent the first 15 years of his life traveling the world to wherever his father was stationed. He spent his pre-teen years in Morocco and was there during its independence from France. He attended school in England during this time and traveled with his family throughout Europe on vacations. His family moved to San Miguel de Allende, in Mexico in the 1960's when his father retired from military service. He spent several years in Mexico and in the mid-1960's was swept up in the military build-up for Vietnam. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1966 and served a tour of duty in Vietnam: 1966-1967. He was wounded twice and served with honor, his battalion being decorated several times for action in the field. He returned from the war and re-entered college in Mexico City and also began to study Buddhism. The Vietnam War made a profound impression on him and he began to look for the meaning of living. Buddhism offered many solutions to this search and an antithesis to a violent world. During this time he began an amateur writing career and decided to become a writer. Moving to California in the early 1970's on the way to the Far East to study Buddhism, but wound up enchanted with the Southern Californian coast and never left. Today he lives in Los Angeles, is widowed, has a son who is also a writer and 3 grandchildren. This is his first novel and is the culmination of years of research and spiritual searching. It is also the realization of his dream to write. See less