Steve Lopez Biography
Steve Lopez (Steven M. Lopez) an American journalist working as a columnist for The Los Angeles Times as of 2001. He has been on staff at Time Inc. and written for Time, Life, Entertainment Weekly as well as Sports Illustrated.
Steve Lopez Age
Steve was born in 1953, in Pittsburg, California, United States
Steve Lopez Career
He wrote the novels Third and Indiana, The Sunday Macaroni Club, as well as In the Clear. Steve has also compiled a collection of his works from The Philadelphia Inquirer titled Land of Giants, as well as a collection of Los Angeles Times columns called Dreams & Schemes.
Steve’s series of columns about his unlikely relationship with a cellist with schizophrenia Nathaniel Anthony Ayers became the subject of a national best-selling book by Steve that inspired the film The Soloist, which stars Robert Downey Jr. as Lopez. Steve was interviewed in the 2007 documentary Skid Row.
Ayers and Steve’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 Steve to participate in a driving test while under the influence of marijuana. The purpose of Steve’s study was to gauge the potential ramifications of California Proposition 19.
Steve Lopez Net Worth
Steve has an estimated net worth of $2 million
Steve Lopez Awards
Steve has won numerous national journalism awards including the H.L. Mencken and Ernie Pyle awards, as well as was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for columns on elder care and his father’s declining health.
In 2008 Steve received the President’s Award from the Los Angeles Press Club at the 50th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. Steve’s book, The Soloist, won the PEN USA award for literary non-fiction.
Steve 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, Steve received an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater, San Jose State University.
Steve Lopez Family
Steve was born to Grace and Tony Spanish and Italian immigrants. However, more information about his family are publicly unavailable. We will update this section as soon as this information is available.
Steve Lopez Wife
Steve married his second wife, Alison Shore, an editor and screenwriter on May 11, 1996. He has two sons, from his first marriage.