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Informationen zum Autor Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was born in Liege, Belgium. He went to work as a reporter at the age of fifteen and in 1923 moved to Paris, where under various pseudonyms he became a highly successful and prolific author of pulp fiction while leading a dazzling social life. In the early 1930s, Simenon emerged as a writer under his own name, gaining renown for his detective stories featuring Inspector Maigret. He also began to write his psychological novels, or "romans durs"--books in which he displays a sympathetic awareness of the emotional and spiritual pain underlying the routines of daily life. Having written nearly two hundred books under his own name and become the best-selling author in the world, Simenon retired as a novelist in 1973, devoting himself instead to dictating several volumes of memoirs. Larry McMurtry lives in Archer City, Texas. His novels include "The Last Picture Show," "Terms of Endearment," "Lonesome Dove" (winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), "Folly and Glory "and "Rhino Ranch." His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen," "Paradise," "Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West" and, most recently, "Custer."
