David Simon

David Simon (Screenwriter, Executive Producer) was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun on the City Desk for 13 years and continues to freelance for various publications. Simon penned two books of narrative nonfiction, “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets,” which inspired the hit series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” and “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood,” which resulted in the HBO miniseries, “The Corner,” for which Simon received two Emmy awards. He then was the creator and executive producer of the Peabody Award-winning HBO drama “The Wire.”