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Roberta "Bobbi" Anderson (1951-1988) is an author of Wild West fiction; she lived in Cleaves Mills, Maine before moving to Haven in 1975. She owned a dog named Peter.

On 21 June 1988, she stumbled across the alien spacecraft buried in the forest outside of town. She was the main deuteragonist turned central antagonist in Stephen King’s 26th novel, ‘The Tommyknockers.’

Bibliography

Boxing the Compass (1974)
Hangtown (1975)
(second novel)
(third novel)
(fourth novel)
(fifth novel)
(sixth novel)
(seventh novel)
(eighth novel)
(ninth novel)
The Long Ride Back (1986)
Massacre Canyon (1988)

In the miniseries

Anderson was portrayed by Marg Helgenberger in the 1993 miniseries. Like the character in the novel Bobbi is a writer of Westerns. She suffers from writer´s block and her boyfriend is Jim Gardner.

She is the first to find the alien ship and influenced by it. She initially feels euphoria, but eventually helps to destroy the aliens, once she realizes what they are planning, with the help of her boyfriend.

Appearances

The Tommyknockers
The Tommyknockers

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-'''Roberta "Bobbi" Anderson''' (''b. 1951'') is an author of Wild West fiction; she lived in [[Cleaves Mills, Maine]] before moving to [[Haven, Maine|Haven]] in 1975. She owned a dog named [[Peter]].
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+'''Roberta "Bobbi" Anderson''' (1951-1988) is an author of Wild West fiction; she lived in [[Cleaves Mills, Maine]] before moving to [[Haven, Maine|Haven]] in 1975. She owned a dog named [[Peter]].
-On 21 June 1988, she stumbled across the alien spacecraft buried in the forest outside of town.
+On 21 June 1988, she stumbled across the alien spacecraft buried in the forest outside of town. She was the main deuteragonist turned central antagonist in Stephen King’s 26th novel, ‘''The Tommyknockers.’''
 ===Bibliography===
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 [[File:Tommyknockers_clip_1.jpg|thumb|left|300px]]Anderson was portrayed by [[Marg Helgenberger]] in the [[The Tommyknockers (miniseries)|1993 miniseries]]. Like the character in the novel Bobbi is a writer of Westerns. She suffers from writer´s block and her boyfriend is Jim Gardner.
-She is the first to find the alien ship and influenced by it. She even feels euphoria by it, but she still retains her will and rebels against them, when she realised, what they were doing with the help of her boyfriend, who helps her realise, what they were doing.
+She is the first to find the alien ship and influenced by it. She initially feels euphoria, but eventually helps to destroy the aliens, once she realizes what they are planning, with the help of her boyfriend.
 ==Appearances==
 * ''[[The Tommyknockers]]''
 * ''[[The Tommyknockers (miniseries)|The Tommyknockers]]''
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 [[Category:Haven residents|Anderson, Bobbi]]
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