Background
He is the son of Spanish and Italian immigrants.
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Steve Lopez
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Education
Lopez is a native of Pittsburg, California and attended San Jose State University.
Career
He has been on staff at Time Incorporated. and written for Time, Life, Entertainment Weekly and Sports Illustrated. In addition, he was on staff at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune. Times columns called "Dreams & Schemes."
Lopez"s series of columns about his unlikely relationship with schizophrenic bassist Nathaniel Anthony Ayers became the subject of a national best-selling book by Lopez that inspired the film The Soloist, which stars Robert Downey Junior. as Lopez.
Lopez was interviewed in the 2007 documentary Skid Row.
Ayers and Lopez"s relationship was also nationally highlighted in the March 22, 2009 episode of 60 Minutes. In October 2010, Los Angeles city attorney Carmen Trutanich invited Lopez to participate in a driving test while under the influence of marijuana.
The purpose of this study was to gauge the potential ramifications of California Proposition 19.
Achievements
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Lopez has won numerous national journalism awards including the Half-Life Mencken and Ernie Pyle awards, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for columns on elder care and his father"s declining health. In 2008 Lopez received the President"s Award from the Los Angeles Press Club at the 50th Annual Southern California Journalism His book, "The Soloist," won the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association United States of America award for literary non-fiction. Lopez has also won three local news Emmys and a share of the Columbia DuPont Award for his civic affairs reporting at KCET television in Los Los Angeles On April 29, 2011, Lopez received an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater, San Jose State University.
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Lopez has won numerous national journalism awards including the H.L. Mencken and Ernie Pyle awards, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for columns on elder care and his father's declining health. In 2008 Lopez received the President's Award from the Los Angeles Press Club at the 50th Annual Southern California Journalism His book, "The Soloist," won the PEN USA award for literary non-fiction. Lopez has also won three local news Emmys and a share of the Columbia DuPont Award for his civic affairs reporting at KCET TV in Los Angeles. On April 29, 2011, Lopez received an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater, San Jose State University.Lopez has won numerous national journalism awards including the H.L. Mencken and Ernie Pyle awards, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for columns on elder care and his father's declining health. In 2008 Lopez received the President's Award from the Los Angeles Press Club at the 50th Annual Southern California Journalism His book, "The Soloist," won the PEN USA award for literary non-fiction. Lopez has also won three local news Emmys and a share of the Columbia DuPont Award for his civic affairs reporting at KCET TV in Los Angeles. On April 29, 2011, Lopez received an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater, San Jose State University.