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'Penetrating, fully researched and very well written. It describes this extraordinarily productive literary genius at all stages of his life and adds to an unde

Winner of the Marsh Prize for biography and an Edgar Award finalist. "I doubt if there will be a better, or a better written, portrait of Simenon for a long tim

A biography of Georges Simenon, a prolific writer whose 400 novels, including his Inspector Maigret series were translated into 50 languages. The book traces hi

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at