George Pelecanos
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George Pelecanos is the author of eighteen novels set in and around Washington, D.C., including A Firing Offense, Nick’s Trip, The Cut, and most recently What It Was. 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. His novels Hell to Pay and Soul Circus were awarded the 2003 and 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and the collections Unusual Suspects, Measures of Poison, Best American Mystery Stories of 2002, and Men From Boys, among others. He served as editor on the collections D.C. Noir and D.C. Noir 2: The Classics, as well as The Best Mystery Stories of 2008. He is an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Sight and Sound, Uncut, and numerous other publications. Esquire magazine called him “the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world.” In Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote that Pelecanos is “perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.”
Pelecanos served as producer on several feature films, including Whatever (Susan Skoog, 1998) and BlackMale (George and Mike Baluzy, 1999). Most recently, he was a producer, writer, and story editor for the acclaimed HBO dramatic series, The Wire, winner of the Peabody Award and the AFI Award. He was nominated for an Emmy for his writing on the series. He was a writer and co-producer on the World War II miniseries The Pacific, and is currently at work as an executive producer and writer on David Simon’s HBO dramatic series Treme, shot in New Orleans.
Links
- Interview with Noah Charney. The Daily Beast. 26 September 2012.
- “Killing Spree” (Review of What It Was) by Marilyn Stasio. The New York Times. 10 February 2012.
- Interview with Alan Sepinwall. Hitfix. 26 August 2011.
- Review of The Cut by Jonathan Yardley. The Washington Post. 25 August 2011.
Media
Q&A with Michael Sobalvarro | October 9, 2012