Zorzi, a colleague at The Baltimore Sun and on The Wire. Following Treme, Simon wrote the HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero with journalist William F. Simon also created the HBO series Treme with Eric Overmyer, which aired for four seasons. He was selected as one of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows and named an Utne Reader visionary in 2011. He adapted the non-fiction book Generation Kill into a television mini-series, and served as the show runner for the project. He was the creator, executive producer, head writer, and show runner of the HBO television series The Wire (2002–2008). Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series The Corner (2000). The former book was the basis for the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–99), on which Simon served as a writer and producer. He worked for The Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years (1982–95), wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991), and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) with Ed Burns. David Judah Simon (born February 9, 1960) is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on The Wire (2002–08).
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