27 Facts About Simon David

1. Simon David was the patron of the Nuremberg Meistersinger and Hans Sachs's Der klingende Ton tells of Jonathan saving David from Saul's assassination attempt.

2. Simon David allied with its king, Nahash, an enemy of Saul's.

3. Simon David has left the imprint as a state-builder and conqueror on Western consciousness.

4. Simon David introduced a new icon, the ark, into a new capital.

5. Simon David was, in the end, a Middle Eastern politician, and can only have ruled by division and terror.

6. Simon David is then elected king of Israel; he conquers Jerusalem, and brings the ark there from the Gibeonite center, Kiryath-Jearim.

7. Simon David had to quash an uprising of Saul's tribe, the Benjaminites.

8. Simon David expanded his kingdom to Phoenicia in the west, the Arabian Desert in the east, the Orontes River in the north, and Etzion Geber in the south.

9. Simon David was born in Bethlehem, the youngest son of Jesse of the tribe of Judah.

10. Simon David was the 2012 commencement speaker for the Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the speaker for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School graduation.

11. In 2008, Simon David married Baltimore novelist and former Sun reporter Laura Lippman in a ceremony officiated by John Waters.

12. In 1991, Simon David was married to graphic artist Kayle Tucker.

13. Simon David has described the book as a "a wholesale fabrication.

14. Simon David has spoken out publicly against crime journalist Kevin Deutsch, disputing the portrayal of Baltimore's illegal drug trade in Deutsch's book, Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire.

15. In 2013, Simon David compared the global surveillance disclosures uncovered by Edward Snowden to a 1980s effort by the City of Baltimore to record the numbers dialed from all pay phones.

16. One of the actions Simon David took was to name a character in The Wire after Marimow and make the character "a repellent police-department toady.

17. Simon David is known for his realistic dialogue and journalistic approach to writing.

18. Simon David was the creator, show runner, executive producer and head writer of the HBO drama series The Wire.

19. Simon David was raised in a Jewish family with roots that originated in Eastern Europe and Hungary.

20. Simon David was born in Washington, DC, the son of Dorothy Simon, a homemaker, and Bernard Simon, a former journalist and then public relations director for B'nai B'rith for 20 years.

21. Simon David co-created the HBO series Treme with Eric Overmyer, which aired its fourth and final season in 2013.

22. Simon David developed and served as cowriter on the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, the story of Nick Wasicsko, the young mayor of Yonkers, New York, who fought for the desegregation of the city's public housing during the 1980s and '90s.

23. In 2002 Simon David created The Wire, which was ostensibly a take on the common "cop show" but was tailored to fit his views of contemporary American society.

24. Simon David was the originator, show smuggler, executive producer and head writer of the HBO drama series The Wire.

25. Simon David restored Pittsburgh's three-goal lead with his fifth with 4:15 remaining in the middle period.

26. Simon David plans to mark it ­alongside a host of his celebrity pals including Amanda Holden, Mel B, Heidi Klum, Piers ­Morgan and Louis Tomlinson.

27. Simon David was a long-time specialty retail brand and division of Tom Thumb Supermarkets.