Welcome to the home page of writer and author 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.

My latest endeavor is a play based on the infamous televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. that aired during the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1968. 

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 and there are many other bits and pieces of things to read and check out.  I also may be reached via email at: 

tomgravescrossroads@yahoo.com