The Wire’s Literary Source Material, Explained

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, began his career as a journalist at The Baltimore Sun in the late 1980s. His experiences there inspired his books Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991) and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997). Fans of The Wire will recognize characters, locations, storylines, and even entire scenes from the show within these books.





