Lopez, Steve.

The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music / Steve Lopez. - Berkley movie tie-in pbk. ed. - New York : Berkley Books, c2008. - xi, 289 p. ; 21 cm.

The true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who becomes schizophrenic and homeless, and his friendship with Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles columnist who discovers and writes about him in the newspaper.

ISBN: 9780425226001 (pbk.) 042522600X (pbk.)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Ayers, Nathaniel Anthony.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Violinists--California--Biography.
Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles.
Skid row--California--Los Angeles.