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For several years beginning in the late 1960s, Evel Knievel was “the coolest man on earth,” said Kyle Smith in the New York Post. By tracing the life of the motorcycle daredevil from his outlaw youth to brief superstardom and beyond, Leigh Montville’s “outlandishly entertaining” biography helps us remember why. Born Robert Knievel in 1938, this son of a hardscrabble Montana mining town styled himself a star-spangled American hero when he’d rev up his Harley and attempt—often unsuccessfully—to soar over cars, buses, cougars, and practically anything else that would draw an audience. He was a circus performer and “existential outlaw” rolled into one.

“The phrase ‘ended up in the hospital’ occurs in Montville’s biography with roughly the same frequency as the phrase ‘wrote a poem’ occurs in the biography of Sylvia Plath,” said David Kirby in The Washington Post. Knievel wasn’t, we learn, a very good motorcycle rider. As many readers might know alread

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Evel Knievel Biography | An American Legend

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Everything you need to know about the iconic daredevil

Evel Knievel. A name that for many immediately brings to mind broken bones, death-defying stunts, and star-spangled motorbikes. But behind Knievel’s most famous stunts, who was he really? What motivated him to do what he did time and time again? Draw the curtain of show business shut, and what kind of man were you left with? This, right here, is the full story.

Unsurprisingly, Evel Knievel wasn’t Evel Knievel’s real name. Born Robert Craig Knievel Junior, on the 17th of October 1938 in Butte, Montana, he was the eldest of two. After his parents divorced in 1940 and left Butte, Knievel and his brother Nicolas were raised by their grandparents.

Knievel’s love affair with stunt performing began when, aged just eight, he attended a Joie Chitwood auto show. Chitwood was an American race car driver and daredevil, and someone who Knievel would later credit as being the man who most influenced his unorthodox career decision.

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