Georges Simenon (1903-1989) began work as a reporter for a local newspaper at the age of sixteen, and at nineteen he moved to Paris to embark on a career as a novelist. He went on to write seventy-five Maigret novels and twenty-eight Maigret short stories.
Georges Simenon(19031989) is one of the most widely read and published novelists of all time. He wrote more than two hundred books under his own nameincluding seventy-five Maigret novelsand more than two hundred under a series of pseudonyms.