Price's first novel was
The Wanderers (1974), a coming-of-age story set in
the Bronx in 1962, written when Price was 24 years old. It was
adapted into a film in 1979, with a screenplay by Rose Kaufman and
Philip Kaufman and directed by the latter. His novel
Clockers, published in 1992, was nominated for the
National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1995, it was adapted into a
film directed by
Spike Lee; Price and Lee shared writing credits for the screenplay. In his review of Price's novel
Lush Life (2008),
Walter Kirn compared Price to
Raymond Chandler and
Saul Bellow. In July 2010, a group art show inspired by
Lush Life was held in nine galleries in New York City. Price wrote a detective novel entitled
The Whites under the pen name Harry Brandt. The book was released February 17, 2015. Film producer
Scott Rudin will be producing a film version of the novel. Price has written numerous screenplays, including
The Color of Money (1986) (for which he was nominated for an
Oscar),
Life Lessons (the Martin Scorsese segment of
New York Stories) (1989),
Sea of Love (1989),
Mad Dog and Glory (1993),
Ransom (1996), and
Shaft (2000). He wrote the screenplay for the film
Child 44, which was released in April 2015. Price did uncredited work on the film
American Gangster (2007). He also served as executive producer on the film
Ethan Frome (1993). Price wrote and conceptualized the 18-minute music video for
Michael Jackson's "
Bad". He also wrote for the
HBO series
The Wire, winning the
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series at the
February 2008 ceremony for his work on the fifth season of the series. He created a police drama series
NYC 22 in 2012, it was cancelled after one season. His eight-part HBO miniseries
The Night Of premiered in July 2016. Also premiering on HBO, in September 2017, was the series
The Deuce—co-written and executive produced by Price. He acts as the showrunner for the 2020 HBO miniseries
The Outsider, based on a novel by
Stephen King. Price is often cast in cameo roles in the films he writes. He has published articles in
The New York Times,
Esquire,
The New Yorker,
The Village Voice,
Rolling Stone and others. He has taught writing at
Binghamton University,
Hofstra University,
Columbia University,
Yale University, and
New York University. == Awards ==