Author to Discuss His Books and Award-Winning Show set in Urban Baltimore

 

What: George Pelecanos, the author of 15 novels and a writer and producer of the award-winning HBO series, “The Wire,” will deliver a public talk entitled, “Drama City: Spirituality, Morality and the Urban Scene.” He will also show clips from “The Wire.”

 

When: Wednesday, March 5 at 4:15 p.m.

 

Where: The Reese Room of Smith House on Vernon Street on the Trinity campus.

 

Background: Pelecanos, who will also meet with Trinity students in a Cities Program course called “Writing the City” on Tuesday, March 4, will devote his public talk to a discussion of morality and spirituality in urban America.

Born in Washington D.C., Pelecanos worked as a cook, dishwasher, bartender, laborer and women’s shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992. He is the author of 15 critically acclaimed novels set in and around the nation’s capital. He is a three-time recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year Award, a two-time winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Award, the recipient of the Raymond Chandler Award in Italy, the Falcon Award in Japan and the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir in France.

 

His fiction has appeared in Esquire and he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ and Sound, Uncut, Mojo, among others. His latest novel, Hard Revolution, was a New York Times bestseller. Esquire has called Pelecanos “the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world.”
 

 

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