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David Judah Simon (born February 9, 1960) is an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the ''Baltimore Sun'' City Desk for twelve years (1982–95) and 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. 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. Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series ''The Corner'' (2000). He is the creator of the HBO television series ''The Wire'' (2002–2008), 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. He was selected as one of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.6241271/k.8712/David_Simon.htm )〕 and named an ''Utne Reader'' visionary in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.utne.com/Arts-Culture/Utne-Reader-Visionaries-David-Simon-Television-Man.aspx )〕 Simon also co-created the HBO series ''Treme'' with Eric Overmyer, which aired for four seasons. Following ''Treme's'' conclusion, Simon wrote the HBO mini-series ''Show Me a Hero'' with journalist William F. Zorzi, with whom Simon worked with at ''The Baltimore Sun'' and on ''The Wire''. In August 2015, HBO commissioned two drama pilots from Simon's ''Blown Deadline Productions'': ''The Deuce''—about the New York porn industry in the 1970s and 1980s, to star Maggie Gyllenhall and co-producer James Franco (as twins) and shooting in New York in the fall of 2015—and an untitled program exploring a 'detailed examination of partisanship' and money in Washington politics, to be co-produced with Carl Bernstein.〔( ''HBO Orders Two David Simon Pilots, James Franco to Star In Porn Drama'' Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 August 2015 ).Retrieved: 25 September 2015.〕 ''Wire'' writers also involved in ''The Deuce'' include George Pelecanos, Richard Price, Michelle MacLaren, Nina K. Noble, and Marc Henry Johnson.〔( ''HBO Orders Two David Simon Pilots Including Porn Industry Drama Starring James Franco'', Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 6 August 2015 ).Retrieved: 25 September 2015.〕 == Early life == 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 for B'nai B'rith for 20 years. 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) in Washington, D.C. by former national secretary of the Nation of Islam Hamaas Abdul Khaalis in the Hanafi Siege. Simon was raised in a Jewish family with roots that originated in Eastern Europe and Hungary (his maternal grandfather had changed his surname from "Leibowitz" to "Ligeti").〔〔http://davidsimon.com/pickles-and-cream/〕 He has a brother, Gary Simon, and a sister, Linda Evans, who died in 1990.〔 Simon graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and wrote for the school newspaper, ''The Tattler''. In 1983, he graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at college he wrote for ''The Diamondback'' and became friends with contemporary David Mills. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Simon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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