distributor of John Woo’s cult classic, The Killer, and Richard Bugajski’s Interrogation. Pelecanos has also worked as a producer on the feature films Caught, Whatever, and BlackMale, and was the U.S. Pelecanos currently serves as co- showrunner-with co-creator David Simon-of HBO’s The Deuce, which began its second season in September. In 2005, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for The Wire, and in 2014 was nominated in the category of Outstanding Miniseries for Treme. He was a writer and co-producer on the World War II miniseries The Pacific, and worked as an executive producer and writer on David Simon’s HBO dramatic series Treme, shot in New Orleans. In addition to his novels, Pelecanos was a producer, writer, and story editor for the acclaimed HBO series The Wire. Esquire magazine has described Pelecanos as “the poet laureate of the D.C. Hell to Pay and Soul Circus were awarded the 20 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been the recipient of the Raymond Chandler Award in Italy, the Falcon Award in Japan, and the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir in France. These novels include A Firing Offense, Shoedog, The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever, Shame the Devil, Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus, Hard Revolution, Drama City, The Night Gardener, The Way Home, The Cut, and What It Was.

Stephen King once called George Pelecanos “perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.” He is the author of twenty novels set in and around Washington, D.C.

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