STEVE LOPEZ - Award-Winning LA Times Journalist and Author of The Soloist

Monday, April 4, 2011 at Redondo Beach 8:00 pm
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at Pasadena 8:00 pm
Monday, April 25, 2011 at Thousand Oaks 8:00 pm

This award-winning columnist 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 this, he was a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune. His work has won him numerous national journalism awards. His best-seller, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, And the Redemptive Power of Music about his four-year odyssey with homeless musician, Nathaniel Ayers, became a hit movie and catapulted Lopez to the national stage.