Robert M. Pirsig

Robert Maynard Pirsig (born September 6, 1928) is an American philosopher, famous for his first book, ' (1974). The book outlined Pirsig's ideas about the Good, in the form of a mostly-autobiographical tale of a man's motorcycle trip across North America with some friends and his son. The book remains a best seller to this day. In 1974 Pirsig was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to allow him to write its follow-up, ' (1991), which explores Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.

External links

• Metaphysics of Quality page
• robertpirsig.org A website containing a number of papers concerned with the Metaphysics of Quality.
• Timeline of Robert Pirsig's life
• Pictures from Robert Pirsig's original 1968 trip upon which Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is based
• Robert M. Pirsig & Quality
• Lila Squad Booklisting
• More Metaphysics of Quality links
• Photograph of Pirsig and the motorcycle he rode in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• A Bio of Pirsig from the American Society of Authors and Writers
• ZAMM Travel Route
• Audio: 1974 NPR Interview with Pirsig
• Audio: 1992 NPR Interview with Pirsig