Biography
David Black is an American screenwriter, novelist and journalist. He has written episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues (1981), Miami Vice (1984) and Law & Order (1990), for which he co-wrote the first on-air episode; he also contributed stories and teleplays to Law & Order and served as story editor on Miami Vice.
Born on 21 April 1945 in Boston, Massachusetts, Black graduated from Amherst College in 1967. He taught as writer-in-residence at Mount Holyoke College from 1982 to 1986 before focusing on television writing and producing in the late 1980s. His other credits include CSI: Miami (2002), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and Blue Bloods (2010). He wrote the screenplay for the 1999 television film The Confession.
Black has received a Writers Guild of America Award for The Confession and Edgar Award nominations for episodes of Law & Order. He is also the author of novels including Like Father and nonfiction works such as The King of Fifth Avenue and Murder at the Met.
