Melissa Holbrook Pierson

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Melissa Holbrook Pierson, born 1957 in Akron, Ohio, is a writer and essayist of non-fiction, and currently lives in New York state, United States. Her works are often explorations of personal experience, extended into general social commentary and history, and include:

  • Precious Dangers: The Lessons of the Motorcycle (1995, Harper's Magazine, Vol. 290, No. 1740, p. 69)
  • The Perfect Vehicle: What Is It About Motorcycles (1998, ISBN 0-393-31809-5)
  • Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion (2000, ISBN 0-393-04947-7)
  • The Place You Love is Gone: Progress Hits Home (2006, ISBN 0-393-05739-9)
  • O.K. You Mugs (2000, ISBN 1-86207-362-7, as contributing editor)
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