Michael Walker

Michael Walker is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter, author and journalist.His first book, LAUREL CANYON: THE INSIDE STORY OF ROCK AND ROLL'S LEGENDARY NEIGHBORHOOD (Farrar Straus & Giroux), spent seven months on the Los Angeles Times Book Review nonfiction bestseller list, is in its 16h printing and continues to receive worldwide acclaim. “A winding, inviting...portrait of a bohemian quarter that played a prominent role in the foundation of rock music,” the New York Times wrote in its review. WHAT YOU WANT IS IN THE LIMO (Spiegel & Grau/Random House, 2013), was praised by Rolling Stone as “a reminder of why the world would eventually need punk rock.” Film rights were purchased by Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil productions. DELTA LADY, his collaboration Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Rita Coolidge, was published in April 2016 by HarperCollins.20th Century Fox and Paranormal Activity producer Jason Blum are developing his screenplay, "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime," based on his magazine feature about the world of cargo pilots.Michael's reporting and writing about pop culture have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, Rolling Stone, Men's Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Billboard, the Hollywood Reporter and many other national and international publications. He has worked as an editor at the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.REPRESENTATIONDaniel Greenberg, Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency * 212.337.0934 Marc Von Arx, Nelson Davis LLP * 424-214-4800