Robert M. Pirsig, author of the influential 1970s philosophical novel Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, died on April 24 at the age of 88, his publisher said.
William Morrow & Co executive editor Peter Hubbard said in a statement that Pirsig's wife Wendy had confirmed his death at his home in Maine "after a period of failing health". Published in 1974 after being rejected by more than 100 other publishers, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance was the father-son story of a motorcycle trip across the western United States. Loosely autobiographical, it also contained flashbacks to a period in which the author was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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