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David Simon

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David Judah Simon[1](born February 9, 1960) is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work onThe Wire(2002–2008).

David Simon
Simon in 2004
Simon in 2004
BornDavid Judah Simon
(1960-02-09)February 9, 1960(age 64)
Washington, D.C.,U.S.
Occupation
EducationBethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, College Park(BA)
SubjectCrime fiction,true crime
Years active1982–present
Notable worksThe Wire
Treme
The Deuce
Spouse
Kayle Tucker
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(m.1991;div.1998)​
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(m.2006;sep.2020)​
Children2

He worked forThe Baltimore SunCity Desk for twelve years (1982–1995), wroteHomicide: A Year on the Killing Streets(1991), and co-wroteThe Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood(1997) withEd Burns.The former book was the basis for theNBCseriesHomicide: Life on the Street(1993–1999), on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Simon adapted the latter book into theHBOmini-seriesThe Corner(2000).

He is the creator, executive producer,head writer,andshow runnerof the HBO television seriesThe Wire(2002–2008). He adapted the non-fiction bookGeneration Killintoa television mini-series,and served as the show runner for the project. He was selected as one of the 2010MacArthur Fellows[2]and named anUtne Readervisionary in 2011.[3]Simon also created the HBO seriesTremewithEric Overmyer,which aired for four seasons. FollowingTreme,Simon wrote the HBO mini-seriesShow Me a Herowith journalistWilliam F. Zorzi,a colleague atThe Baltimore Sunand onThe Wire.Simon and frequent collaboratorGeorge Pelecanosreunited to create original seriesThe Deuce.The drama about the New York porn industry in the 1970s and 1980s starred producerMaggie Gyllenhaaland executive producerJames Franco,and aired from 2017 to 2019. Simon's next series,The Plot Against America,debuted in 2020.

We Own This Citywas developed and written byGeorge Pelecanosand Simon, and directed byReinaldo Marcus Green.The six-episode limited series premiered onHBOon April 25, 2022.[4]

Early life and education

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Simon was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Dorothy Simon (née Ligeti), a homemaker, and Bernard Simon, a former journalist and then public relations director forB'nai B'rithfor 20 years.[5][6][7][8]Simon was raised in aJewishfamily, and had abar mitzvahceremony.[9]His family roots are in Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and Slovakia (his maternal grandfather had changed his surname from "Leibowitz" to "Ligeti" ).[7][10][11]He has a brother, Gary Simon, and a sister, Linda Evans, who died in 1990.[8]

In March 1977, when Simon was still in high school, Simon's father was one of a group of over 140 people held hostage (and later released) inWashington, D.C.by former national secretary of the Nation of Islam Hamaas Abdul Khaalis in theHanafi Siege.[12][13][14]

Simon graduated fromBethesda-Chevy Chase High Schoolin Bethesda, Maryland, and wrote for the school newspaper,The Tattler.In 1983, he graduated from theUniversity of Maryland, College Park.While at college he wrote and was editor forThe Diamondback,and became friends with contemporaryDavid Mills.[15]

Career

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External videos
Author, Screenwriter, & Producer David Simon: 2010 MacArthur FellowMacArthur Foundation[16]
A Conversation with President Obama and The Wire Creator David Simon,TheWhite House[17]

Journalism

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Upon leaving college, Simon worked as a police reporter atThe Baltimore Sunfrom 1982 to 1995.[18]Simon was hired by theBaltimore Sunfor a piece he wrote about Lefty Driesell, who was then the men's basketball coach at the University of Maryland. Driesell had been extremely frustrated that one of his players was suspended from playing for sexual impropriety and called the victim, threatening to destroy her reputation if she did not withdraw her complaint. This was all done while the university administration was listening to the call, but they did nothing.Lefty Driesellwas later given a 5-year contract and, in 2018, he was inducted into the ACC Hall of Fame.

Simon spent most of his career covering the crime beat.[18][19]A colleague has said that Simon loved journalism and felt it was "God's work".[19]Simon says that he was initially altruistic and was inspired to enter journalism byThe Washington Post's coverage ofWatergatebut became increasingly pragmatic as he gained experience.[19]

Simon was a union captain when the writing staff went on strike in 1987 over benefit cuts.[20]He remained angry after the strike ended and began to feel uncomfortable in the writing room.[20]He searched for a reason to justify a leave of absence and settled on the idea of writing a novel.[20]"I got out of journalism because some sons of bitches bought my newspaper and it stopped being fun," said Simon.[21][22]

In 1988, disillusioned, Simon took a year's leave to go into theBaltimore Police DepartmentHomicide Unit to write a book.[23]

Book

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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

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Simon's leave of absence fromThe Sunresulted in his first bookHomicide: A Year on the Killing Streets(1991). The book was based on his experiences shadowing theBaltimorePolice Department homicide unit during 1988.[18]The idea came from a conversation on Christmas Eve 1985 in the unit office, where Det. Bill Lansey told him, "If someone just wrote down what happens in this place for one year, they'd have a goddamn book."[20]Simon approached the police department and the editors of the paper to receive approval. The detectives were initially slow to accept him, but he persevered in an attempt to "seem… like part of the furniture". However, he soon ingratiated himself with the detectives, saying in the closing notes of the book, "I shared with the detectives a year's worth of fast-food runs, bar arguments and station house humor: Even for a trained observer, it was hard to remain aloof."[19]During one instance, Simon even assisted with an arrest. Two detectives Simon was riding with pulled their car to a curb to apprehend two suspects, but Detective Dave Brown got his trenchcoat caught in a seat belt when he tried to exit the car. Brown told Simon to assist DetectiveTerry McLarneyhimself, and Simon helped apprehend and search one of the suspects.[24]

The book won the 1992Edgar Awardfor BestFact Crimebook.[25]TheAssociated Presscalled it "a true-crime classic".[24]TheLibrary Journalalso highly recommended it, andNewsdaydescribed it as "one of the most engrossing police procedural mystery books ever written".[24]Simon credits his time researching the book as altering his writing style and informing later work. He learned to be more patient in research and writing, and said a key lesson was not promoting himself but concentrating on his subjects.[19]Simon told Baltimore's City Paper in 2003 thatHomicidewas not traditional journalism. "I feltHomicidethe book andThe Cornerwere not traditional journalism in the sense of coming from some artificially omniscient, objective point of view, "said Simon." They're immersed in the respective cultures that they cover in a way that traditional journalism often isn't. "[21]

Television

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Homicide: Life on the Street

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The publishers ofHomicide: A Year on the Killing Streetswere eager for a screen adaptation and submitted it to numerous directors but there was little interest.[20]Simon suggested that they send the book to Baltimore native and film directorBarry Levinson.Levinson's assistant Gail Mutrux enjoyed the book and both she and Levinson became attached as producers.[20]The project became the award-winning TV seriesHomicide: Life on the Street(1993–1999), on which Simon worked as a writer and producer.[18]

Simon was asked by Mutrux to write the show's pilot episode but declined, feeling he did not have the necessary expertise.[26]He collaborated with his old college friendDavid Millsto write the season two premiere "Bop Gun".[19][27]The episode was based on a story by executive producer Tom Fontana and featuredRobin Williamsin a guest starring role that garnered the actor an Emmy nomination. Simon and Mills won theWGA Awardfor Best Writing in a Drama for the episode.[19]Simon also receivedAustin Film Festival's Outstanding Television Writer Award in 2010.

Simon left his job with theBaltimore Sunin 1995 to work full-time onHomicide: Life on the Streetduring the production of the show's fourth season. Simon wrote the teleplay for the season four episodes "Justice: Part 2"[28]and "Scene of the Crime" (withAnya Epstein).[29]For season five he was the show's story editor and continued to contribute teleplays writing the episodes "Bad Medicine"[30]and "Wu's on First?" (again with Epstein).[31]He was credited as a producer on the show's sixth and seventh seasons. He wrote the teleplays for parts two and three of the sixth-season premiere "Blood Ties"[32][33](the latter marking his third collaboration with Epstein) and provided the story for the later sixth-season episodes "Full Court Press"[34]and "Finnegan's Wake" (withJames Yoshimura).[35]He provided the story for the seventh season episodes "Shades of Gray" (withJulie Martin),[36]"The Same Coin" (again with Yoshimura)[37]and "Self Defense" (withEric Overmyer).[38]Simon wrote the story and teleplay for the seventh season episodes "The Twenty Percent Solution"[39]and "Sideshow: Part 2".[40]Simon, Martin and teleplay writerT. J. Englishwon theHumanitas Prizein the 60 minutes category for the episode "Shades of Gray".[41]Simon was nominated for a second WGA Award for Best Writing in a Drama for his work on "Finnegan's Wake" with Yoshimura and Mills (who wrote the teleplay).[42]

Simon has said that he thought the show was a "remarkable drama" but that it did not reflect the book.[20]He has also said that when writing for the show he had to put his experiences of the real detectives aside as the characters became quite different, particularly in their more philosophical approach to the job.[26]Simon said that TV must find shorthand ways of referencing anything real.[19]

The Corner

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In 1997 he co-authored, withEd Burns,The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood,the true account of a West Baltimore community dominated by a heavy drug market.[43][44]Simon credits his editor John Sterling with the suggestion that he observe a single drug corner.[18]He took a second leave of absence from the Baltimore Sun in 1993 to research the project.[19][45]Simon became close to one of his subjects, drug addict Gary McCullough, and was devastated by his death while he was writing the project.[19]Simon says that he approached the research with the abstract idea that his subjects may die because of their addictions but it was not possible to fully prepare for the reality.[19]He remains grateful to his subjects saying "This involved people's whole lives, there's no privacy in it. That was an enormous gift which many, many people gave us. Even the most functional were at war with themselves. But they were not foolish people. And they made that choice."[19]

The Cornerwas named a Notable Book of the Year byThe New York Times.[46]Simon again returned to his journalism career after finishing the book but felt further changed by his experiences. He said he "was less enamored of the braggadocio, all that big, we're-really-having-an-impact talk" and no longer believed that they were making a difference; he left his job at The Sun within a year for work on NBC'sHomicide.[19]

Soon afterHomicideconcluded Simon co-wrote (withDavid Mills) and producedThe Corneras a six-hour TVminiseriesforHBO.[20]

The Wire

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Simon was the creator,show runner,executive producer andhead writerof the HBO drama seriesThe Wirefor five seasons.[47][45]Many ofThe Wire's characters and incidents also came fromHomicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.[48]After the fourth season, Simon signed on to produce the fifth and final season ofThe Wire,which focused on the role of mass media in society.[49]

Again he worked withEd Burnson creating the show. Originally they set out to create a police drama loosely based on Burns' experiences when working on protracted investigations of violent drug dealers using surveillance technology.[50]During this time Burns had often faced frustration with the bureaucracy of the police department, which Simon equated with his own ordeals as a police reporter forThe Baltimore Sun.[51]Writing against the background of current events, including institutionalized corporate crime atEnronand institutional dysfunction in the Catholic Church, the show became "more of a treatise about institutions and individuals than a straight cop show."[52]

They chose to takeThe Wireto HBO because of their existing working relationship fromThe Corner.Owing to its reputation for exploring new areas, HBO was initially dubious about including a cop drama in their lineup, but eventually agreed to produce the pilot[52][53]after ordering a further two scripts to see how the series would progress.[54]Carolyn Strauss,the president of HBO entertainment, has said that Simon's argument that the most subversive thing HBO could do was invade the networks' "backyard" of police procedurals helped to persuade them.[18]

The theme of institutional dysfunction was expanded across different areas of the city as the show progressed. The second season focused on the death of working-class America through examination of the city ports.[55]The third season "reflects on the nature of reform and reformers, and whether there is any possibility that political processes, long calcified, can mitigate against the forces currently arrayed against individuals."[55]For the fourth season Simon again turned to Burns' experience, this time his second career as a Baltimore public school teacher in examining the theme of education.[18][56]The fifth season looked at the media, as well as continuing themes such as politics from earlier seasons.

Simon was reunited with hisThe CornerproducersRobert F. ColesberryandNina K. NobleonThe Wire.[49]Simon credits Colesberry for achieving the show's realistic visual feel.[57]They recruitedHomicidestar and directorClark Johnsonto helm the pilot episode.[57]The completed pilot was given to HBO in November 2001.[54]Johnson returned to direct the second episode when the show was picked up,[57]and would direct the series finale as well, in addition to starring in the fifth season.

Simon approached acclaimed crime fiction authors to write forThe Wire.He was recommended the work ofGeorge Pelecanosby a colleague while working at the Baltimore Sun because of similarities between their writing. The two writers have much in common including a childhood in Silver Spring, attendance at the University of Maryland and their interest in the "fate of the American city and the black urban poor."[54]Simon did not read Pelecanos initially because of territorial prejudice; Pelecanos is from Washington.[20]Once Simon received further recommendations including one from his wife Laura Lippman he tried Pelecanos' novelThe Sweet Foreverand changed his mind.[54]He sought out Pelecanos when recruiting writers forThe Wire.The two met at the funeral of a mutual friend shortly after Simon delivered the pilot episode.[54]Simon pitched Pelecanos the idea ofThe Wireas a novel for television about the American city as Pelecanos drove him home.[54]Pelecanos became a regular writer[58]and later a producer for the show's second[59]and third seasons.[60]Simon and Pelecanos collaborated to write the episode "Middle Ground"[61][62]which received the show's first Emmy nomination, in the categoryOutstanding Writing for a Drama Series.[63]

Pelecanos left the production staff following the third season to focus on his next novel; Simon has commented that he missed having him working on the show full-time but was pleased that he continued to write for them and was a fan of the resultant bookThe Night Gardener.[64]Similar to Simon's own experience in researchingHomicidePelecanos spent time embedded with the Washington DC homicide unit to research the book.

Crime novelistDennis Lehanehas also written for the series starting with the third season.[60][65]Lehane has commented that he was impressed by Simon and Burns' ear for authentic street slang.[54]

Eric Overmyerwas brought in to fill the role of Pelecanos as a full-time writer producer.[64][66]He had previously worked with Simon onHomicidewhere the two became friends.[64]Simon has said that he was impressed with Overmyer's writing particularly in synthesizing the story for "Margin of Error"as the episode is the height of the show's political storyline but must also progress other plot threads.[64]

Simon and his writing staff were nominated for theWriters Guild of America Awardfor Best Dramatic Series at theFebruary 2009 ceremonyfor their work on the fifth season.[67]Simon and Burns collaborated to write the series finale "-30-"which received the show's second Emmy nomination, again in the category Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.[68]

Simon has stated that he finds working with HBO more comfortable than his experiences with NBC onHomicideand that HBO is able to allow greater creative control because it is dependent on subscribers rather than on viewing figures.[43]He has said that he feels unable to return to network television because he felt pressure to compromise storytelling for audience satisfaction.[20]

Generation Kill

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Simon produced and wroteGeneration Killfor HBO withEd Burns.They again worked withNina Nobleas a producer. The miniseries is an adaption of thenon-fiction bookof the same name. It relates the first 40 days of the2003 invasion of Iraqas experienced by1st Reconnaissance Battalionand their embedded reporter,Evan Wright.Simon and Burns worked with Wright in adapting his book into the series.[69]

Treme

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Simon collaborated withEric Overmyeragain onTreme,[70]a project about musicians in post-KatrinaNew Orleans.[54]Overmyer lives part-time in New Orleans, and Simon believed his experience would be valuable in navigating the "ornate oral tradition" of the city's stories.[54]Simon also consulted with New Orleans nativesDonald Harrison Jr.,Kermit Ruffins,and Davis Rogan while developing the series.[71]The show focuses on a working-class neighborhood, and is smaller in scope thanThe Wire.The series premiered on April 11, 2010, onHBOand ran for four seasons.

Tremeis named after theFaubourg Tremeneighborhood in New Orleans that is home to many of the city's musicians.[70]Simon stated that the series would explore beyond the music scene to encompass political corruption, the public housing controversy, the criminal-justice system, clashes between police and Mardi Gras Indians, and the struggle to regain the tourism industry after the storm.[72]One of the principal characters in the pilot script runs a restaurant.[71]The series was filmed on location and was expected to provide a boost to the New Orleans economy.[72]Simon's casting of the show mirrored that ofThe Wirein using local actors wherever possible.[71]Wendell Pierce,who had previously playedBunk MorelandonThe Wire,stars in the series.Clarke Peters,also ofThe Wire,is another series regular. Many other stars ofThe Wirehave appeared inTreme,these includeSteve Earle,Jim True-Frost,James Ransone,andAnwan Glover.[73]

Show Me a Hero

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In 2014, HBO greenlit production for Simon's next projectShow Me a Hero,a six-hour miniseries co-written with William F. Zorzi and the episodes directed byAcademy Award-winnerPaul Haggis.The miniseries is an adaptation of the nonfiction book of the same name byLisa Belkinand tells the story ofNick Wasicsko,the youngest big-city mayor in the country who is thrust into racial controversy when a federal court orders to build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of Yonkers, New York.[74]Oscar Isaacstars as Wasicsko and leads a cast, which includesCatherine Keener,Jim Belushi,Bob BalabanandWinona Ryder.The miniseries premiered on August 16, 2015.[75][76]

The Deuce

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The Deuceis a 2017 drama television series set in Times Square, New York focusing on the rise of the porn industry in the 1970s-80s. Created and written by Simon along with frequent collaborator George Pelecanos, the series pilot began shooting in October 2015.[77]It was picked up to series in January 2016. It premiered on September 10, 2017, and is broadcast by HBO in the United States.[78]

The Deucetells the story of the legalization and ensuing rise of the porn industry in New York beginning in the 1970s and its ongoing rise through the mid-1980s. Themes explored include the rise of HIV, the violence of the drug epidemic and the resulting real estate booms and busts that coincided with the change.

The Plot Against America

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An adaptation ofPhilip Roth'snovel,The Plot Against Americais an alternate history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family inNewark, New Jersey;as they watch the political rise ofCharles Lindbergh,an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation towardfascism.[79]The six-part miniseries premiered on March 16, 2020, on HBO.

We Own This City

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Aminiseriesbased on the nonfiction book of the same name byBaltimore SunreporterJustin Fenton.The miniseries details the rise and fall of theBaltimore Police Department'sGun Trace Task Forceand the corruption surrounding it.[4]The six-part miniseries premiered on April 25, 2022, on HBO.

Projects in development

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Writing process

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Simon is known for his realistic dialogue and journalistic approach to writing.[54]He says that authenticity is paramount and that he writes not with a generalaudiencein mind but with the opinions of his subjects as his priority.[54]He has described his extensive use of realanecdotesand characters in his writing as "stealing life".[96]

In a talk that Simon gave to a live audience in April 2007 at theCreative Alliance'sstorytelling series, Simon disclosed that he had started writing for revenge againstJohn Carrolland Bill Marimow, the two most senior editors atThe Baltimore Sunwhen Simon was a reporter at the paper.[97]Simon said he had watched Carroll and Marimow "single-handedly destroy" the newspaper and that he spent over ten years trying to get back at them.[97]

Anything I've ever accomplished as a writer, as somebody doing TV, anything I've ever done in life, down to, like, cleaning up my room, has been accomplished because I was going to show people that they were fucked up, wrong, and that I was the fucking center of the universe and the sooner they got hip to that, the happier they would all be.[97]

One of the actions Simon took was to name a character inThe Wireafter Marimow and make the character "a repellent police-department toady."[98]Carroll leftThe Baltimore Sunto become editor at theLos Angeles Timesand resigned in 2005 after budget cuts were announced.[97]"He stands up like a [bleeping] hero, takes a bullet," said Simon.[97]In 2006 Marimow was diagnosed with prostate cancer, something that Simon said "took the edge off" his grudge.[97]Carroll and Marimow "were fuel for 10 years of my life.... And now, I got nothing," Simon said.[97]

When asked about these comments, Simon said that he had spoken with "some hyperbole and, I hope, comic effect", adding that his basic viewpoint was: "that simple revenge is both empty and beside the point and that a good story carefully told has to speak to larger themes. You do not tell an ornate, careful story over ten hours of HBO airtime merely to bust on any given soul."[97]

Views on journalism

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In an interview in Reason in 2004, Simon said that since leaving the newspaper business he has become more cynical about the power of journalism.[43]"One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage," said Simon.[43]"I've become increasingly cynical about the ability of daily journalism to effect any kind of meaningful change. I was pretty dubious about it when I was a journalist, but now I think it's remarkably ineffectual."[43]

While testifying at a 2009 Senate hearing regarding the future of journalism in America, Simon indicated what he saw as poor online journalism, calling the phrasecitizen journalist"Orwellianto [his] ears. "[99]Simon ended his testimony by declaring, "I don't think anything can be done to save high-end journalism."[99]

Political views

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Simon has described himself as asocial democrat,broadly supporting the existence of capitalism while opposing "raw, unencumbered capitalism, absent any social framework, absent any sense of community, without regard to the weakest and most vulnerable classes in society", which he described as "a recipe for needless pain, needless human waste, (and) needless tragedy". He has criticized the idea oftrickle-down economics.[100]

In 2013, Simon compared theglobal surveillance disclosuresuncovered byEdward Snowdento a 1980s effort by the City of Baltimore to record the numbers dialed from all pay phones.[101]The city believed that drug traffickers were using pay phones and pagers, and a municipal judge allowed the city to record the dialed numbers. The placement of the payphone number recorders formed the basis ofThe Wire's first season. Simon argued that the media attention regarding the surveillance disclosures is a "faux scandal."[101][102]

During a November 2013 speech at theFestival of Dangerous Ideasin Sydney, he said that America has become "a horror show" of savage inequality as a result of capitalism run amok, and that "unless we reverse course, the average human being is worthless on planet Earth. Unless we take stock of the fact that maybe socialism and the socialist impulse has to be addressed again; it has to be married as it was married in the 1930s, the 1940s and even into the 1950s, to the engine that is capitalism."[103][104]

Simon has also spoken out publicly against crime journalistKevin Deutsch,disputing the portrayal of Baltimore's illegal drug trade in Deutsch's book,Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire.Simon has described the book as "a wholesale fabrication."[105]

During the2016 Democratic presidential primaries,Simon praisedBernie Sandersfor "rehabilitating and normalizing the term socialist back into American public life", but opposed some attacks againstHillary Clintonwhich he felt focused on her presumed motives rather than the substance of policies.[100]

In April 2022, David Simon thankedRussian oppositionleaderAlexei Navalnyfor using a quote from the TV seriesThe Wirein his court speech and wished good luck to the politician.[106]

Personal life

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In 1991, Simon married graphic artist Kayle Tucker. They had a son. The marriage ended in divorce.

In 2006, Simon married best-selling Baltimore novelist and formerSunreporterLaura Lippmanin a ceremony officiated byJohn Waters.[107][108]They have a daughter, who was born in 2010.[109]Lippman and Simon separated in 2020 but neither has since filed for divorce. The two continue to co-parent their daughter.[110]

Simon's nephew,Jason Simon,is a guitarist and vocalist for the psychedelic rock bandDead Meadow.[111]The band was mentioned in an episode ofThe Wire.

Simon was the 2012 commencement speaker for theGeorgetown UniversityCollege of Arts and Sciences, as well as the speaker for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School graduation.[112]

In 2019, Simon joined a host of other writers in firing their agents as part of theWGA'sstand against theATAafter failing to come to an agreement on their "Code of Conduct". Simon's statement to the writers union was widely circulated. He had previously led the rallying cry about the practices ofpackagingby the major talent agencies.[113][114]

Works and publications

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Commentary

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  • Simon, David (January 20, 2008)."Does the News Matter To Anyone Anymore?".The Washington Post.Retrieved2012-08-20.
  • Simon, David (March 1, 2009)."In Baltimore, No One Left to Press the Police".The Washington Post.Retrieved2012-08-20.
  • Simon, David (July 16, 2009)."Build the Wall".Columbia Journalism Review.Retrieved2012-08-20.

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Filmography

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Producer

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Television shows for which David Simon had producing credit
Year Show Role Notes
1996 Homicide: Life on the Street Story editor Season 5
1997
Producer Season 6
1998
Season 7
1999
2000 The Corner Executive producer, showrunner, writer Miniseries
2002 The Wire Season 1
2003 Season 2
2004 Season 3
2006 Season 4
2008 Season 5
Generation Kill Miniseries
2010 Treme Season 1
2011 Season 2
2012 Season 3
2013 Season 4
2015 Show Me a Hero Miniseries
2017 The Deuce Season 1
2018 Season 2
2019 Season 3
2020 The Plot Against America Miniseries
2022 We Own This City Miniseries

Writer

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Television shows for which David Simon had writing credit
Year Show Season Episode title Episode Notes
1994 Homicide: Life on the Street 2 "Bop Gun" 1 Teleplay by Simon and David Mills from a story by Tom Fontana
1996 NYPD Blue 3 "Hollie and the Blowfish" 17 Teleplay by Simon, story by Simon andBill Clark
Homicide: Life on the Street 4 "Justice: Part 2" 14 Teleplay by Simon from a story by Tom Fontana and Henry Bromell
"Scene of the Crime" 18 Teleplay by Simon and Anya Epstein from a story by Tom Fontana, Henry Bromell and Barry Levinson
5 "Bad Medicine" 4 Teleplay by Simon from a story by Tom Fontana and Julie Martin
1997 "Wu's on First?" 15 Teleplay by Simon and Anya Epstein from a story by Julie Martin and James Yoshimura
6 "Blood Ties: Part 2" 2 Teleplay by Simon from a story by Tom Fontana and James Yoshimura
"Blood Ties: Part 3" 3 Teleplay by Simon and Anya Epstein from a story by Tom Fontana, Julie Martin and James Yoshimura
1998 "Full Court Press" 18 Teleplay by Phillip B. Epstein from a story by Simon
"Finnegan's Wake" 21 Teleplay by David Mills from a story by Simon and James Yoshimura
1999 7 "Shades of Gray" 10 Teleplay by T. J. English from a story by Simon and Julie Martin
"The Same Coin" 12 Teleplay by Sharon Guskin from a story by Simon and James Yoshimura
"Sideshow: Part 2" 15 Writer
"Self Defense" 18 Story
2000 The Corner 1 "Gary's Blues" 1 Writer
"DeAndre's Blues" 2 Writer
"Dope Fiend Blues" 4 Writer
"Corner Boy's Blues" 5 Writer
"Everyman's Blues" 6 Writer
2002 The Wire 1 "The Target" 1 Story and teleplay
"The Detail" 2 Story and teleplay
"The Buys" 3 Story and teleplay
"Old Cases" 4 Story and teleplay
"The Pager" 5 Story
"The Wire" 6 Story and teleplay
"One Arrest" 7 Story
"Lessons" 8 Story and teleplay
"Game Day" 9 Story
"The Cost" 10 Story and teleplay
"The Hunt" 11 Story
"Cleaning Up" 12 Story
"Sentencing" 13 Writer
2003 2 "Ebb Tide" 1 Story and teleplay
"Collateral Damage" 2 Story and teleplay
"Hot Shots" 3 Story and teleplay
"Hard Cases" 4 Story
"Undertow" 5 Story
"All Prologue" 6 Story and teleplay
"Backwash" 7 Story
"Duck and Cover" 8 Story
"Stray Rounds" 9 Story and teleplay
"Storm Warnings" 10 Story
"Bad Dreams" 11 Story
"Port in a Storm" 12 Story and teleplay
2004 3 "Time After Time" 1 Story and teleplay
"All Due Respect" 2 Story
"Dead Soldiers" 3 Story
"Hamsterdam" 4 Story
"Straight and True" 5 Story
"Homecoming" 6 Story
"Back Burners" 7 Story
"Moral Midgetry" 8 Story
"Slapstick" 9 Story and teleplay
"Reformation" 10 Story
"Middle Ground" 11 Story
"Mission Accomplished" 12 Story and teleplay
2006 4 "Boys of Summer" 1 Story and teleplay
"Alliances" 5 Story
"A New Day" 11 Story
"Final Grades" 13 Story and teleplay
2008 5 "More with Less" 1 Story and teleplay
"Unconfirmed Reports" 2 Story
"Not for Attribution" 3 Story
"Transitions" 4 Story
"React Quotes" 5 Story
"The Dickensian Aspect" 6 Story
"Took" 7 Story
"Clarifications" 8 Story
"Late Editions" 9 Story
"-30-" 10 Story and teleplay
Generation Kill 1 "Get Some" 1 Writer
"The Cradle of Civilization" 2 Story
"Screwby" 3 Story
"Combat Jack" 4 Story and teleplay
"A Burning Dog" 5 Story
"Stay Frosty" 6 Story
"Bombs in the Garden" 7 Story and teleplay
2010 Treme 1 "Do You Know What It Means" 1 Teleplay
"Meet De Boys on the Battlefront" 2 Story
"Right Place, Wrong Time" 3 Story
"Shame, Shame, Shame" 5 Story
"Shallow Water, Oh Mama" 6 Story
"Wish Somebody Would Care" 9 Story
"I'll Fly Away" 10 Teleplay
2011 2 "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky" 2 Teleplay
"Slip Away" 5 Story
"Carnival Time" 7 Teleplay
"What Is New Orleans?" 9 Story
"Do Whatcha Wanna" 11 Story and teleplay
2012 3 "Knock With Me - Rock With Me" 1 Story and teleplay
"The Greatest Love" 4 Story
"Promised Land" 7 Story
"Tipitina" 10 Story and teleplay
2013 4 "Yes We Can Can" 1 Teleplay
"Sunset on Louisianne" 4 Teleplay
"...To Miss New Orleans" 5 Teleplay
2015 Show Me a Hero 1 "Parts 1 & 2" 1 & 2 Story and teleplay
"Parts 3 & 4" 3 & 4 Story
"Parts 5 & 6" 5 & 6 Story and teleplay
2017 The Deuce 1 "Pilot" 1 Story and teleplay
"The Principle is All" 3 Story and teleplay
"Au Reservoir" 7 Story
"My Name Is Ruby" 8 Story and teleplay
2018 2 "Our Raison d'Etre" 1 Story and teleplay
"Inside the Pretend" 9 Story and teleplay
2019 3 "The Camera Loves You" 1 Story and teleplay
"That's a Wrap" 7 Story and teleplay
"Finish It" 8 Story and teleplay

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