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4 de sept. de 2008 · 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.
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets David Simon. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $24.95 (599pp) ISBN 978-0-395-48829-4
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Tapa blanda – 22 agosto 2006. From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show. The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death.
The Washington Post"This may be the best true-crime book, the best naked look at murder and cops and crime and life on the killing streets of big-city America in the late 20th century . . . . A rich, revealing look at the twisted lives of killers and their victims and at the men who are obsessed with solving the most heinous and baffling murders".
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon is a non-fiction book that chronicles a year in the life of the Baltimore Police Department’s Homicide Unit. The book is based on the author’s observations and interviews as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, who gained unprecedented access to the unit in 1988.
David Simon's Homicide won an Edgar Award and became the basis for the NBC award-winning drama. Simon's second book, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, co-authored with Edward Burns, was made into an HBO miniseries. Simon is currently the executive producer and writer for HBO's Peabody Award–winning series The Wire.
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