Writer, Filmmaker David Simon to Speak at UB School of Law, March 9
March 3, 2016
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
David Simon, the award-winning creator of The Wire and an acclaimed journalist and commentator, will deliver a talk, "Simon Says: An Intimate Discussion with David Simon, Former Baltimore Sun Reporter and Creator of The Wire," on Wednesday, March 9, at the University of Baltimore School of Law. A guest of the School's chapter of the Student Bar Association, Simon will appear at 5:30 p.m. in the Moot Court Room in the School's John and Frances Angelos Law Center, 1401 N. Charles St. The talk is free and open to the public. An online R.S.V.P. is required; details are listed below.
Simon is a Baltimore-based journalist, author and television producer. Born in Washington, D.C., he came to Baltimore in 1983 to work as a crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He authored two works of narrative non-fiction, 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 an NBC drama series, while the latter became an Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries.
After leaving the Sun, Simon went on to create The Wire for HBO, a drama that aired from 2002 to 2008. Its depiction of a Baltimore contending with crime, poverty and corruption on any number of fronts is still talked about today.
Simon also served as a writer and executive producer of HBO's Generation Kill, a miniseries about the U.S. Marines in the early days of the Iraq conflict, and the Emmy-winning Treme, a series about life in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
Simon's most recent project, the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, tells the story of Yonkers Mayor Nick Wasicsko, a young politician thrust into the middle of racial controversy in the 1970s over a federal order to build low-income housing in segregated neighborhoods.
Simon also writes for The New Yorker, Esquire and The Washington Post, among other publications.
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