His Oldest Friend: The Story of an Unlikely Bond - Softcover

An award-winning journalist provides a vivid and heartwarming portrait of a friendship that spans generations, between Margaret Oliver, a ninety-year-old wheelchair-bound resident of a Manhattan nursing home, and Elvis Checo, a poor, Hispanic teenage volunteer, describing the course of their relationship as the diverse worlds of the very young and very old come together. Reprint.

Sonny Kleinfield is a reporter for The New York Times and the author of seven previous books. He has contributed articles to The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, and he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal before joining the Times. He shared in a Pulitzer Prize for a Times series on race in America and has received a number of journalism awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Meyer Berger Award, an American Society of Newspaper Editors Award, and the Gerald Loeb Award. A native of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, he is a graduate of New York University and lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.