Charlie Rose

Guests: David Simon RSS

2008:

1. 

   A conversation with David Simon

   with David Simon on Jul 16, 2008

   Duration

   25 min

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David Simon is an American author, journalist, and writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years. He wrote the books Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. The former 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 into the Emmy-award winning HBO mini-series The Corner. He was also the creator, show runner, executive producer and head writer of the critically acclaimed original HBO series The Wire.