David Simon is the author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets which described his life traveling with members of the Baltimore, Maryland Police Department. This was turned into the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street by Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, and Paul Attanasio. He then turned to writing from the point-of-view of drug dealers and users in The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (co-authored with Edward Burns, a former police officer) which was turned into an HBO miniseries. Most recently, he is the creator of the HBO series The Wire which takes the point-of-view of both law enforcement and the criminals. City nickname: Charm City Location in the state of Maryland Founded 30 July 1729 County Independent city Mayor Martin OMalley (Dem) Area - Total - Water 349. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Barry Levinson (b. ... Tom Fontana is an American Writer, Producer born on 12 September 1951 at Buffalo, New York, USA He is the producer for Oz (TV series), The Jury, and Homicide: Life on the Street. ... HBO logo HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network. ... The Wire is a police/crime television drama shown by the HBO cable network in the United States. ...
He is part of a literary circle including Laura Lippman and George Pelecanos. Laura Lippmann is an author of detective fiction born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1959 and raised in Baltimore, Maryland (where she now lives) and went to high school in Columbia, Maryland (where she was the captain of the Wilde Lake High School Its Academic team). ... George Pelecanos is an American author of detective fiction. ...
DavidSimon (born in Washington, D.C. in 1960) is an author, journalist and writer-producer of television shows based on his books.
Simon and David Mills also won for the series the Emmy for best writing in a movie or miniseries.
Simon left the Baltimore Sun in 1995, and continues to work as a freelance journalist and author, writing for The Washington Post, The New Republic and Details magazine.
At the center of The Wire is creator-producer-writer DavidSimon, 44, a veteran of the Baltimore Sun who rose to national prominence with his 1991 book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.
Simons next book, The Corner (1997), was written with retired detective Edward Burns; it was the product of another year-long immersion, this time in a West Baltimore neighborhood ravaged by the drug trade and the drug war.
DavidSimon: Its cynical about institutions, and about their capacity for serving the needs of the individual.
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