David Simon to be Honored with Career Achievement Award at WGA East

Writer David Simon (The Wire) has been selected to receive the Ian McClellan Hunter Award for career achievement from the Writers Guild of America East.

A member of WGA East since 1995, Simon will accept the award at the 66th Annual Writers Guild Awards show on Feb 1 in New York. He will receive the award from Treme and The Wire star Wendell Pierce.

"David Simon's distinguished career is a celebration of his ability to combine the street smarts of the cityside newspaper reporter he once was with the creative imagination of a novelist," said WGA East president Michael Winship, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter. "He crafts compelling stories about the heartache and strife of urban America, depicting both the humanity of those who live and work there and the too often pitiless indifference of its institutions."

Simon is known for writing and producing the The Wire, the TV miniseries Generation Kill and the TV series Treme and Homicide: Life on the Street. In 2010, he received a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.”

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