David Simon

Devid Juda Saymon (1960-yil 9-fevralda tug‘ilgan) — amerikalik yozuvchi, jurnalist, ssenariynavis va prodyuser. U asosan “The Wire” (2002–2008) seriali orqali tanilgan. O‘n ikki yil davomida (1982–1995) “The Baltimore Sun” gazetasida ishlagan. U “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets” (1991) kitobi va Ed Berns bilan hammualliflikda yozilgan “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood” (1997) asari muallifidir. Birinchi kitobi NBC kanalining “Homicide: Life on the Street” (1993–1999) serialiga asos bo‘lgan, unda Saymon yozuvchi va prodyuser sifatida ishlagan. HBO kanalining “The Wire” serialini yaratgan, shuningdek, “Generation Kill” kitobini serialga moslashtirgan. 2010-yilda “MacArthur Fellow” stipendiyasiga sazovor bo‘lgan. U Erik Overmayer bilan hamkorlikda HBO uchun “Treme” serialini suratga olgan. Keyinchalik Uilyam F. Zorzi bilan “Show Me a Hero” mini-serialini yozgan. Jorj Pelekanos bilan birgalikda Nyu-York pornografiya sanoati haqidagi “The Deuce” (2017–2019) serialini yaratdi. 2020-yilda esa “The Plot Against America” seriali taqdim etilgan.