A fresh look at Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — cbc.ca

It became an almost immediate classic, has been compared in literary stature to Moby Dick, and acclaimed as the most widely read book of philosophy ever written.  The philosophical trailblazer was Robert M. Pirsig, at the time an unassuming writer of computer technical manuals, living in Saint Paul, Minn. His first novel, the then-bizarrely titled Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, was published in 1974 and has never out of print since.

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