Editor-at-Large @CountyHwy. Books: Blood Will Out, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker, She Needed Me, Mission to America, My Hard Bargain, There's a Bear in the House!
Evel Knievel was the purest celebrity America has ever produced. I'll defend this proposition to the end. Even Elvis got famous for doing something others had done. Singing & dancing. Evel got famous for doing a thing only he did, something he dreamed up as a restless kid.