Dick has blended a lifelong commitment to writing, writing as a calling not just a job, fiercely personal writing, with a parallel life of mountain adventures: Skiing, ski racing, speed skiing, rock climbing and mountaineering. To date Dorworth has published 3 books, Night Driving, The Perfect Turn, and most recently, The Straight Course, a memoir of speed skiing in the 60s. Night Driving, the Invention of the Wheel & Other Blues, is an action-packed memoir and meditation on a life in perpetual motion, across the West, down the length of South America. Driving as discovery, of self and the world. Dorworth goes beyond the open road as metaphor, and treats it as a grand stage for energetic. First published as a special edition of Mountain Gazette, Night Driving appeared in book form published by First Ascent Press in 2007. Already a cult classic, Night Driving will soon be reissued in a new edition, both in paperback and as an eBook, by Western Eye Press.
