George Pelecanos

Awards

Won 1 Writers Guild of America Award

Writers Guild of America 1 won

• ★ 2008 Award Won

Hammett Prize 1 won

• ★ 2009 Hammett Prize Won

Barry Award for Best Novel 1 won

• ★ 2007 Best Novel Won The Night Gardener

Edgar Awards 1 won

• ★ 2007 Edgar Awards Won The Wire

Emmy Award 1 nominated

• ◦ 2005 Emmy Award Nominated Middle Ground

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George P. Pelecanos (born February 18, 1957) is an American author, producer and television writer. Many of his 20 books are in the detective fiction genre, set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. On television, he frequently collaborates with David Simon, writing multiple episodes of Simon's HBO series The Wire and Treme. He is also the co-creator (with Simon) of the HBO series The Deuce and We Own This City. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Pelecanos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.