Simon says he did start out altruistically. "David buys into journalism completely," says one ex-colleague. Beginning as a police reporter, Simon knew he would stay with crime. But this is one reporter who discerned his own assignments, and tackled them by taking serious risks.ĭavid Simon is 38 he was 22 when he joined the Baltimore Sun. Now, as Simon scripts his second book for television, he has achieved three careers: as journalist, author, and screenwriter-producer.Īll three stories would seem to be tales of instant success. Levinson turned the piece into one of America's favorite cop shows. It caught the attention of filmmaker Barry Levinson, who had just inked a deal with NBC. The book's research was done in one harrowing year - 1988 - spent "shadowing" Baltimore's 40-man murder squad.
Initially, he told its stories in 1991, with the groundbreaking book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets." It was a rich and graphic chronicle of death as business, plied by cops whose pressure-cooker lives he caught in vivid detail. Simon, now a writer-producer on the weekly show, is the man who first brought viewers into the homicide unit. You've reached the Writer's Office of the popular TV series, and the voice belongs to journalist David Simon. The phone rings a voice answers in a single word - "Homicide!" Yet this is not inside the squad room on your television.
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