Photo by Jim Donnelly.
Karl Ludvigsen, longtime automotive author, researcher, and contributor to Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, obviously knows a thing or two about writing a good book, whatever the topic may be. That fact was hammered home earlier this week when he won the Dean Batchelor Award, the highest honor in automotive journalism, for his book Porsche: Origin of the Species.
As noted in Jim Donnelly?s review of the book in the February 2013 issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Ludvigsen took a rather uncommon approach to this book. Rather than write about the history of the entire marque, or even of a particular model, Ludvigsen devoted 356 pages ? and 450 illustrations, including photography by Michael Furman ? to one car: Porsche 356, serial number 356/2-040, a Gmund coupe built in 1951 and now owned by Jerry Seinfeld. Though concerned with that one car, Ludvigsen ranges broadly in the book, touching on all the events that led Ferdinand Porsche to establish his eponymous sports-car company.
Nominated in the Motor Press Guild?s Best Book category for 2012, Ludvigsen?s Porsche book competed with In the Red by Jade Gurss and The Stainless Steel Carrot: An Auto Racing Odessey ? Revisited By Sylvia Wilkinson to win its category and then with the winner of the Best Audio/Visual category (Micah Muzio and Michael Delano?s KBB Races a Mazda Miata for Kelly Blue Book) and the winner of the Best Article category (The World?s Fastest Hot Rod By Greg Sharp, which appeared in The Rodder?s Journal, Spring 2012 issue) to take the Dean Batchelor Award, presented Tuesday night at the Motor Press Guild banquet in Los Angeles. Also honored that night was Thomas L. Bryant, editor emeritus of Road & Track, who received the guild?s Lifetime Achievement Award.
For more on the Dean Batchelor Award and its past recipients, visit MotorPressGuild.org.
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