David Simon, born 1960 in Washington, D.C., USA, is a motion picture writer and producer. He is the creator of The Wire. He was an Executive Producer and writer throughout the show's five season run. He has been active in the motion picture industry since 1993. He worked as a journalist before that and wrote for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years. He wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood with Ed Burns. The former book 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 book into the Emmy Award winning HBO mini-series The Corner.