This lively memoir details Fred Haefele’s experiences with pickup trucks in each phase of his life. Uniquely free spirited, The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks is equal parts love story, blue-collar writer’s tale, and motor-head memoir.
Fred Haefele is a writer, teacher, and retired arborist. He is the author of the award-winning motorcycle memoir Rebuilding the Indian (Bison Books, 2005) and the nonfiction collection Extremophilia. Haefele’s work has appeared in Outside, Wired, the New York Times Magazine, Salon.com, Montana Magazine, and other venues, and he has written documentaries for the PBS American Experience series. He lives in Missoula, Montana, with his wife, Caroline Patterson.
