Steve Lopez(V)
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Columnist Steve Lopez joined the staff of the Los Angeles Times in May
2001 after four years at Time Inc., where he wrote for Time, Sports
Illustrated, Life, and Entertainment Weekly. Prior to Time Inc., Lopez
was a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Jose Mercury
News, and the Oakland Tribune. His work has won numerous national
journalism awards for column writing and magazine reporting. A
California native, Lopez is the author of three novels, Third and
Indiana, The Sunday Macaroni Club, and In the Clear, and a book of
non-fiction, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and The
Redemptive Power of Music. That book is based on columns Lopez wrote
for The Times about his friendship with Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless,
Juilliard-educated Los Angeles musician. There is a film version of The
Soloist, starring Jamie Foxx as Ayers and Robert Downey Jr. as Lopez.
Steve Lopez is married and has two sons and a daughter.
