Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a signed first edition of the book, and tools and clothing from the ride. In 2020, the Smithsonian acquired additional material from the Pirsig family relating to Pirsig's maritime interests and background. In 2020, the Robert M. Pirsig archive was collected by the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; a 2021 article in the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies details the writer's close historic relationship with motorcycles from the age of four to shortly before his death. See also James Verne Dusenberry Notes External links The Motorcycle is Yourself: Revisiting 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' CBC interview Photographs from Pirsig's 1968 trip upon which Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is based NPR interviews with Pirsig: Audio: 1974 and Audio: 1992 Audio excerpt from BBC radio program about cult books 1928 births 2017 deaths 20th-century American philosophers 20th-century American novelists American expatriates in Belgium American expatriates in Ireland American expatriates in Norway American expatriates in Sweden American expatriates in the United Kingdom American people of German descent American people of Swedish descent Banaras Hindu University alumni Military personnel from Minnesota Motorcycling writers Writers from Minneapolis People with schizophrenia Philosophers of technology People with mood disorders United States Army soldiers University of Chicago alumni University of Minnesota alumni American male novelists Novelists from Minnesota American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers Notable residents of Montana