The best-selling author of Route 66 and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer celebrate America's first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory. The Washington Post - Mary Ishimoto Morris Michael Wallis, author, historian…hit the road with Michael S. Williamson, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post photographer, to rediscover the meandering concrete, asphalt and dirt relic, digging up history, photographing the present and creating a rich, insightful American travelogue.