Life Is a Highway, a collection of the best automotive writing to date, captures the joys of the automobile, the historical circumstances of its creation, and the major events, people, and cars involved. This book includes the most significant writings and musings about the automobile ever recorded, featuring works from some of the most well-known authors and publications of the automobile’s first 100-plus years. Contributors include Stephen King, Jack Kerouac, Peter Egan, Jeremy Clarkson, Jay Leno, P. J. O'Rourke, Rowan Atkinson, and L. J. K. Setright.
Darwin Holmstrom, senior acquisitions editor for MBI Publishing, has written or co-written over a dozen books on cars and motorcycles, including BMW Motorcycles, GTO: Pontiac’s Great One, The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection, Camaro: Forty Years, Muscle: America’s Legendary Performance Cars, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Motorcycles.
Melinda Keefe is an MBI Publishing editor who has contributed to various Motorbooks titles, covering subjects from hot rodding to muscle cars to motorsports. Her efforts with Motorbooks have inspired an interest in cars and car people that was unexpected but has been surprisingly satisfying. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.