Steven L. Thompson is a historian, pilot, journalist, and former executive editor of Car & Driver and AOPA Pilot Magazines. He has also served as an editor at AutoWeek, Cycle World, Urban Moto, RANGE, Air & Space, and Technology & Culture magazines.
An avid motorcyclist, Steve wrote Bodies in Motion: Evolution and Experience in Motorcycling, a social history of American motorcycling.
Thompson has also written several novels. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife, writer Lanny Pepper.