Robert M. Pirsig, the philosopher and author of two books, including the bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, died at his home in South Berwick, Me., on April ...

In 1974, an unknown writer named Robert M. Pirsig published Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, at the height of the American counterculture movement. The novel—or instruction manual, or ...

In the nearly five years it took Robert Pirsig to sell “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” 121 publishers rejected the rambling novel. Robert M. Pirsig, in 1975AP The 122nd gently warned ...

Author Robert Pirsig left greasy fingerprints on pages of his shop manual while working on his mystical motorcycle, the one in the enduring 1974 classic "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robert M. Pirsig, author of the influential 1970s philosophical novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle ...

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 Pirsig, who wrote the unexpected bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and just one other novel, 1991's Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals, died at his home in Maine on Monday, ...

Robert 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, died Monday ...

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 more ...