David Mills (TV writer)

David Eugene Mills ( born November 20, 1961 in Washington, DC, † March 30, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an award winning American journalist, author and screenwriter. Screenplays for The Corner series earned him two Emmy Awards in 2000 one (along with David Simon and others) for Emergency Room - The emergency department and NYPD Blue was he nominated in other years. He was the author of the settled in 2003 after six episodes of the U.S. series Kingpin.

Mills worked for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times and the Washington Post. ( Among other things ) about him was in an authored by the New York Times series "How Race Is Lived in America" ​​reported, which in 2000 won a Pulitzer Prize.

Mills died after collapsing on the set of the filming of the series Treme.