 Young Man with a Horn (novel)

Young Man with a Horn is a 1938 novel by Dorothy Baker that is loosely based on the real life of jazz cornet player Bix Beiderbecke.The novel was adapted for the movie "Young Man With a Horn" (1950) with Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall, Juano Hernández, and real-life Bix Beiderbecke friend and collaborator Hoagy Carmichael

It is a fictionalized novel on jazz set in a world of speakeasies and big bands during The Jazz Age of the 1920s.