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Personal
Zuiker was born in Blue Island, Illinois, but his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Zuiker attended Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona for three years and then transferred to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where he graduated. During all four years he was involved in competitive forensics, advancing as far as semifinals at the national speech tournament.
In a talk at the International Mystery Writers Festival in June 2008, Zuicker said that he was working as a tram driver in Las Vegas when he came up with the idea for the series. He said he was about to go out to play basketball with some friends when his wife asked him to stay in and watch a show on criminal forensics on the Discovery Channel. "I decided to stay, and that changed everything." He also freely admited that he knew nothing about writing for TV and therefore his pilot script "broke all the rules," thereby creating the programs' characteristic visual and storytelling styles.
Awards/Nominations
On October 25, 2007, he received the Big Brother Award Austria 2007 in the category of communication and marketing. The jury stated among other things, "The CSI television series present computer surveillance, DNA-analysis and the overthrow of civil rights in an uncritical, trivialized and dangerously onesided kind of way". Furthermore the rights of people in general and the suspects in particular would be pictured primarily as impediments of investigations.
Philanthropy
A new school theater is named after him: the Anthony E. Zuiker Theater at the Chaparral High School, Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Zuiker was a 1986 graduate of this high school.
References
1 "Zuiker brings content to life" http://nabshowdaily.nbmedia.com/pages/s.0007/t.12698.html grejkgtwrhgui
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