David Simon

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Simon
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Feb 9, 1960(1960-02-09)
Age	64
Birthplace	Washington
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington, D.C.
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Simon Biography

David Simon is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on February 9, 1960 in Washington, Washington, D.C., United States. Screenwriter best known for creating the critically-acclaimed HBO series The Wire. He also created the HBO series Treme and wrote the HBO miniseries Generation Kill and Show Me a Hero.

His cast on The Wire included Dominic West, Idris Elba, Sonja Sohn and Michael Kenneth Williams.

The Deuce tells the story of the legalization and ensuing rise of the porn industry in New York beginning in the 1970s and its ongoing rise through the mid-1980s. Themes explored include the rise of HIV, the violence of the drug epidemic and the resulting real estate booms and busts that coincided with the change.

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.

He was married to Kayle Tucker from 1991 to 1998 and in 2008, he married Laura Lippman. He has a son named Ethan and a daughter named Georgia.

David Simon Net Worth

David Simon is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Simon 's net worth $15 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He wrote for University of Maryland’s publication, The Diamondback, while in college.

He worked as a crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun for over a decade, where he started acquiring many of the stories that he would later use in The Wire.

David Judah Simon (born February 9, 1960) is an American author, journalist, and television writer and producer best known for his work on The Wire. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years (1982–95), 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).

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Who is David Simon Dating?

According to our records, David Simon married to Laura Lippman , Kayle Tucker. As of December 1, 2023, David Simon’s is not dating anyone.

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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. Simon was raised in a Jewish family, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. His family roots are in Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and Slovakia (his maternal grandfather had changed his surname from “Leibowitz” to “Ligeti”). He has a brother, Gary Simon, and a sister, Linda Evans, who died in 1990.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Simon celebrates birthday on February 9 of every year.

Simon’s leave of absence from The Sun resulted in his first book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991). The book was based on his experiences shadowing the Baltimore Police Department homicide unit during 1988. The idea came from a conversation on Christmas Eve 1985 in the unit office, where Det. Bill Lansey told him, “If someone just wrote down what happens in this place for one year, they’d have a goddamn book.” Simon approached the police department and the editors of the paper to receive approval. The detectives were initially slow to accept him, but he persevered in an attempt to “seem … like part of the furniture”. However, he soon ingratiated himself with the detectives, saying in the closing notes of the book, “I shared with the detectives a year’s worth of fast-food runs, bar arguments and station house humor: Even for a trained observer, it was hard to remain aloof.” During one instance, Simon even assisted with an arrest. Two detectives Simon was riding with pulled their car to a curb to apprehend two suspects, but Detective Dave Brown got his trenchcoat caught in a seat belt when he tried to exit the car. Brown told Simon to assist Detective Terry McLarney himself, and Simon helped apprehend and search one of the suspects.

Was David Simon in The Wire?

David Simon, (born 1960, Washington, D.C., U.S.), American journalist, writer, and producer who was best known as the creator, writer, and executive producer of the critically acclaimed television series The Wire (2002–08).

Who is David Simon's wife?

Wife

What shows did David Simon create?

David Simon
Notable works| The Wire Treme The Deuce
Spouse| Kayle Tucker ​ ​ ( m. 1991; div. 1998)​ Laura Lippman ​ ( m. 2008)​
Children| 2

How old is David Simon?

62 years (February 9, 1960)

Is We Own This City related to The Wire?

We Own This City isn’t just set in the same Police Department as The Wire – it’s created by The Wire’s showrunners David Simon and George Pelecanos.