Robert Maynard Pirsig (Minneapolis, Minesota; September 6, 1928-South Berwick, Maine; April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values* (1974) and *Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)* **Source**: Wikipedia.