Wayne Johnson is the acclaimed author of White Heat and four novels. He has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and held a Chesterfield Film Project Fellowship in Hollywood. A long-time faculty member at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, he also teaches screenwriting at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Wayne has lived, breathed, and dreamed bikes since he was just a kid craving the freedom of the open road. He currently rides a Ducati ST-4.
Rich with personal experience and deep with knowledge of motorcycles since their first invention, Live to Ride brings home the full rush of the need for speed. --Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising and Devil's Dream If it involves a motorcycle, Wayne Johnson has it covered...[his] passion for riding is unbridled, and his prose sometimes sings like the smooth engine of a Ducati. -- Publishers Weekly Enjoyable and informative--one of the best book on the topic in years ... [ Live to Ride ] captures the obsessive excitement of motorcycle culture with enough verve to make nonriders understand, and jealous. -- Kirkus A marvelously entertaining and masterfully written ode to the many joys of two wheeled motorized transportation...This very special book transcends its seemingly narrow subject matter to touch the pulse of life in modern America. -- Booklist (starred review) Rich with personal experience and deep with knowledge of motorcycles since their first invention, Live to Ride brings home the full rush of the need for speed. -Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising and Devil's Dream If it involves a motorcycle, Wayne Johnson has it covered...[his] passion for riding is unbridled, and his prose sometimes sings like the smooth engine of a Ducati. - Publishers Weekly A marvelously entertaining and masterfully written ode to the many joys of two wheeled motorized transportation...This very special book transcends its seemingly narrow subject matter to touch the pulse of life in modern America. - Booklist (starred review) Enjoyable and informative-one of the best book on the topic in years ... [ Live to Ride ] captures the obsessive excitement of motorcycle culture with enough verve to make nonriders understand, and jealous. - Kirkus