1. George P Pelecanos was born on February 18,1957 and is an American author, producer and television writer.
33 Facts About George Pelecanos
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George Pelecanos acknowledged that Elmore Leonard was a prime influence on him as an author.
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George Pelecanos has commented that he did not feel he had the ability to be this ambitious earlier in his career.
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Now writing in the third person, George Pelecanos relegated Stefanos to a supporting character and introduced his first "salt and pepper" team of crime fighters, Dimitri Karras and Marcus Clay.
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The Sweet Forever and Shame the Devil closed the quartet and George Pelecanos retired Stefanos and the other characters that populated the novels.
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George Pelecanos is a dog owner and has written about his views of dogfighting.
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George Pelecanos has published short fiction in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including Measures of Poison and Usual Suspects.
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George Pelecanos's reviews have been published in The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere.
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In 2011, George Pelecanos published The Cut, introducing the character Spero Lucas, a young veteran of the Iraq war.
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In 2013, George Pelecanos published The Double, the second Spero Lucas book.
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George Pelecanos has written and produced for HBO's The Wire and is part of a literary circle with The Wire creator David Simon and novelist Laura Lippman.
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George Pelecanos was excited about the prospect of writing something more than simple mystery for television as he strived to exceed the boundaries of genre in his novels.
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George Pelecanos joined the crew as a writer for the first season in 2002.
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George Pelecanos wrote the teleplay for the season's penultimate episode, "Cleaning Up", from a story by Simon and Ed Burns.
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George Pelecanos was promoted to producer for the second season in 2003.
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George Pelecanos wrote the teleplay for the episodes "Duck and Cover" and "Bad Dreams" from stories he co-wrote with Simon.
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George Pelecanos remained a writer and producer for the third season in 2004.
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George Pelecanos wrote the teleplay for the episodes "Hamsterdam" and "Middle Ground" from stories he co-wrote with Simon.
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George Pelecanos left the production staff of The Wire after the show's third season to concentrate on writing his novel The Night Gardener.
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George Pelecanos remained a writer for the fourth season in 2006.
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George Pelecanos wrote the teleplay for the penultimate episode "That's Got His Own" from a story he co-wrote with producer Ed Burns.
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Simon has commented that he missed having George Pelecanos working on the show full-time but was a fan of The Night Gardener.
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George Pelecanos returned as a writer for the series fifth and final season.
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George Pelecanos wrote the teleplay for the episode "Late Editions" from a story he co-wrote with Simon.
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George Pelecanos co-wrote "Part 3" of the series with fellow co-producer Michelle Ashford.
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George Pelecanos saw the project as a chance to make a tribute to his father, Pete George Pelecanos, who served as a Marine in the Philippines.
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Also in 2010 George Pelecanos joined the crew of HBO New Orleans drama Treme as a writer.
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George Pelecanos wrote the teleplay for the episode "At the Foot of Canal Street" from a story he co-wrote with Overmyer.
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George Pelecanos returned as a Consulting Producer and writer for the second season in 2011.
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George Pelecanos joined the crew full-time as a writer and executive producer for the third season in 2012.
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George Pelecanos remained in this role for the fourth and final season in 2013.
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George Pelecanos co-authored several of the teleplays, including the pilot, with Simon, and co-authored episodes with Richard Price and Lisa Lutz.
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George Pelecanos is currently developing a series based on his Derek Strange character for HBO.