"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" was based on a real-life, 17-day motorcycle trip that he took with his 11-year-old son Chris and two family friends. They rode from the Twin Cities of ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Fifty years ago, the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" became an instant hit.

Robert M. Pirsig, whose philosophical novel “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” became a million-selling classic and cultural touchstone after more than 100 publishers turned it down ...

Robert M. Pirsig, author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” died at his home in South Berwick, Maine on April 24. The 88-year-old writer had been in poor health, according to his ...

Friend, Co-author and uber-VC, Brad Feld (who IMHO is also the Gandhi of Venture Capital) suggests in his blog that every entrepreneur should read Robert Pirsig's all time classic book, Zen and ...

His obituary quoted Todd Gitlin, a sociologist, who said, “that “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” in seeking to reconcile humanism with technological progress, had been perfectly ...

New York: Robert M. Pirsig, whose philosophical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance became a million-selling classic and cultural touchstone after more than 100 publishers turned it ...

Robert M. Pirsig, whose novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" became a million-selling classic after more than 100 publishers turned it down, has died.

Taken from his website of author Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values," written in 1974. The book, reissued in a 2000 anniversary edition, has sold ...

NEW YORK — Robert M. Pirsig, whose novel “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” became a million-selling classic after more than 100 publishers turned it down, has died. Pirsig’s ...

His son, Chris, who figured prominently in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” was stabbed to death during a mugging outside the San Francisco Zen Center in 1979. Sign Up to Breaking ...

The best-seller written by the South Berwick resident, which explores the thesis that quality is the basis of reality, has sold more than 5 million copies.