Michael Karl Witzel

Witzel is an award-winning artist, writer, and photographer. He’s written over two dozen America pop culture books, including the award-winning The American Gas Station: History and Folklore of the Gas Station in American Car Culture, The American Drive-In, The American Diner, The American Motel, Cruisin: Car Culture in America, Barbecue Road Trip, and more.

An aficionado of vanishing roadside architecture and America’s backroads, he’s criss-crossed America’s Main Street, penning titles such as Route 66 Remembered, Legendary Route 66: A Journey Through Time Along America's Mother Road, and Strange 66.

His writing, photography, and artwork has also been published in Texas Highways, Motorhome, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Mobilia, Check The Oil!, Rider Magazine, Route 66, the Society for Commercial Archeology Journal, Invention & Technology, and Volkswagen World.