The Soloist by Steven Lopez

Steve Lopez, the author and narrator of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music, acknowledges that while he is fascinated by the homeless musician named Nathaniel Anthony Ayers.

Steve Lopez works as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, where he published his columns about Nathaniel Ayers, the overwhelming responses elicited from the readers. "The Soloist" is based upon these columns." Steve was fascinated by Ayers, initially because he believes that Ayers would be good material for a newspaper column. In this reversal, the friendship that genuinely does emerge between the ...