Explores the origins and influence that David Simon's works had on the creation and development of The Wire, a critically acclaimed television series.
The Wire is frequently called a"novel on television," but most people don realize how much of a book adaptation the HBO series actually is. In fact, The Wire had a stack of literary source material, both nonfiction and fiction, that proved essential to making the series what it was.
The Wire creator David Simons work as a journalist for The Baltimore Sun in the late 1980s led to the 1991 book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, and its 1997 follow-up, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. Readers will find names, places, plot points, and even full-on scenes that are familiar from The Wire in both books.
In addition to Simons nonfiction, the crime novels of Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, and Richard Price directly and indirectly informed The Wire over its five seasons. By recruiting fiction authors to write for The Wire, Simon further blurred the line between fact and fiction. Dancing along that line is one of The Wires greatest creative achievements. But its also the one many fans of the show don realize the full extent of.
David Simon tailored The Corner to a readership who was far less familiar with Baltimore police work, while Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets offered a more conventional murder mystery backdrop. The Corner, published in 1997, aired as a miniseries on HBO in 2000, and The Wire premiered on HBO in 2002 as a crime saga based on Simons and Ed Burnss firsthand experience with the Baltimore drug trade and police department
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