David Simon

David Judah Simon born February 9 1960 is an American author journalist screenwriter and producer best known for his work on The Wire 20022008 He worked for The Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years 19821995 wrote Homicide A Year on the Killing Streets 1991 and cowrote The Corner A Year in the Life of an InnerCity Neighborhood 1997 with Ed Burns The former book was the basis for the NBC series Homicide Life on the Street 19931999 on which Simon served as a writer and producer Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO miniseries The Corner 2000 He is the creator executive producer head writer and showrunner of the HBO television series The Wire 20022008 He adapted the nonfiction book Generation Kill into a television miniseries and served as the showrunner for the project He was selected as one of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows and named a Utne Reader visionary in 2011 Simon also created the HBO series Treme with Eric Overmyer which aired for four seasons Following Treme Simon wrote the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero with journalist William F Zorzi a colleague at The Baltimore Sun and on The Wire Simon and frequent collaborator George Pelecanos reunited to create the original series The Deuce The drama about the New York porn industry in the 1970s and 1980s starred producer Maggie Gyllenhaal and executive producer James Franco and aired from 2017 to 2019 Simons next series The Plot Against America debuted in 2020 We Own This City was developed and written by George Pelecanos and Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green The sixepisode limited series premiered on HBO on April 25 2022 Description above from the Wikipedia article David Simon licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia