Robert M. Pirsig was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1931. He received a degree in philosophy from the University of Minnesota in 1953, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961
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He taught at the University of Wisconsin and was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Hampshire before accepting an appointment as dean of the School of Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago six years later. He resigned his position there in 1970 to devote himself full-time to writing his first book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values . The book went on to become a number one bestseller and its lessons about Quality and Truth were recognized by the United States Postal Service with a stamp of recognition .
The author has since written dozens of books on subjects ranging from epistemology to metaphysics, from poetry to pedagogy, including: