David Simon is a person.
David Simon . 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 ) . He was selected as one of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows and named an Utne Reader visionary in 2011 .