Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Personal life Milch is Jewish. He has been married to Rita Stern since 1982. They have three children. Milch has stated he has bipolar disorder. He developed a heart condition in the 1990s. During the filming of NYPD Blue, he suffered a heart attack while arguing with actor David Caruso over the script. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2015 shortly before beginning work on the script for the Deadwood film. As of 2019, Milch lives in an assisted-living facility. On September 13, 2022, Milch published a memoir titled Life's Work. Thoroughbred horse racing Milch is an owner of thoroughbred racehorses. As a co-owner with Mark and Jack Silverman, he won the 1992 Breeders' Cup Juvenile with the colt Gilded Time. Milch owned outright Val Royal who captured the 2001 Breeders' Cup Mile. Television credits Hill Street Blues (1982–87) Bay City Blues (1983) Beverly Hills Buntz (1987–88) (co-creator, with Jeffrey Lewis) Capital News (1990) (co-creator, with Christian Williams) L.A. Law (1992) NYPD Blue (1993–2005) (co-creator, with Steven Bochco) Murder One (1995) Brooklyn South (1997–98) (co-creator, with Steven Bochco) Total Security (1997) (co-creator, with Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, and Theresa Rebeck) Big Apple (2001) (creator) Deadwood (2004–06) (creator) John from Cincinnati (2007) (co-creator, with Kem Nunn) Last of the Ninth (2009) (co-creator, with Bill Clark) Luck (2011–12) (creator) The Money (2013) (creator) True Detective (2019) Deadwood: The Movie (2019) Bibliography Milch, David and Clark, Bill. True Blue: The Real Stories Behind NYPD Blue. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1995. Milch, David. Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2006. Milch, David. Life's Work: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2022. Awards and recognition 1983 Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (Hill Street Blues, "Trial By Fury") 1994 Edgar Award, Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "4B or Not 4B") 1995 Emmy Award, Best Drama Series (NYPD Blue) 1995 Edgar Award, Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "Simone Says") (shared with Steven Bochco and Walon Green) 1997 Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (NYPD Blue, "Where's 'Swaldo") 1998 Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (NYPD Blue, "Lost Israel: Part 2") 2006 Austin Film Festival, Outstanding Television Writer Award recipient 2019 TCA Award, TCA Career Achievement Award References Further reading, audio interviews, and videos (Video: 80-minutes.) Profile of Milch.