Complex sentence: George Pelecanos (born 1957 in Washington, D.C.) is an American author of detective fiction set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer.
Split into simpler sentences: George Pelecanos (born 1957 in Washington, D.C.) is an American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer.