Robert M. Pirsig

1928 - 2017

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, Banaras Hindu University, Blake School

occupation: writer, philosopher, novelist, autobiographer

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship

Robert Maynard Pirsig (; September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher. He was the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife (now widow) and editor, Wendy Pirsig. Source: Wikipedia (en)