Simon, David, 1960-

LC control no.	n 91023425
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Simon, David, 1960- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1960-05-13
Place of birth	Washington (D.C.)
Field of activity	Television authorship Television--Production and direction
Profession or occupation	Screenwriters Television producers and directors Authors Journalists
Found in	His Homicide, 1991: CIP t.p. (David Simon) Phone call to author, 3/7/91 (David J. Simon; b. 9/2/60) The wire, Deadwood, Homicide, and NYPD blue, 2010: ECIP data view (David Simon; b. 1960 in Washington, DC; author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series, best known as the creator of the HBO television series The Wire; he worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years; he wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood with Ed Burns; the former book was the basis for the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street, on which Simon served as a writer and producer; Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series The Corner; he is the creator of the HBO television series The Wire, for which he served as executive producer, head writer, and show runner for all five seasons; he adapted the non-fiction book Generation Kill into an HBO mini-series and served as the show runner for the project) IMDb, November 1, 2021: (David Simon, writer, producer ; b. May 13, 1960 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as David Judah Simon)
Associated language	eng