It revolves mostly around the lives of Gary McCullough, a drug addict, his ex-wife Francine "Fran" Boyd, also an addict, and their older son DeAndre McCullough, a high school student who begins to sell drugs. Although written like a novel, the book is nonfiction it uses the real names of those people and recounts actual events. Simon and Burns spent over a year interviewing and following around the people who lived on the Fayette & Monroe corner. The book covers a year in the life of an inner city drug market at Fayette & Monroe Streets in Baltimore. The authors eventually spent three years working with the people of the neighborhood. He took a second leave of absence from the Baltimore Sun in 1993 to research the project. Simon believes Sterling was expecting a neighborhood story but he knew that "the corner" also had connotations for Baltimore's open-air drug markets. Simon credits his editor John Sterling with the suggestion that he observe a single corner in Baltimore. It was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. This book follows the lives of individuals who lived on the corner of Fayette Street and Monroe Street in West Baltimore over one year. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood is a 1997 book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon and former Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns.
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