George Simenon is French born novelist. He is the deft handler of the detective fiction. He has been acclaimed as its literate writer as well. His name reverberates with the creation of Paris police detective inspector named Maigret. He has brought about dozens of the mysteries of this inspector and authored more than hundred novels. However, he has been criticized for not penning the big novel. He is one of the most published and translated author. He was born in 1903 and was the eldest son of his parents. His father was accountant by profession. He had to say goodbye to his studies because of his fathers illness. He initiated his career as a writer in a newspaper. He was very young when he got published his first novel. He joined a group that was fond of drug intake, drinking philosophy and art. He married an artist at the age of 20. Unfortunately, the marriage c
ould not successfully evolve and ended in divorce. He went to Paris and went on writing short stories and famous novels. He exploited different pen names in this regard. He also assisted an aristocrat. He transformed himself as an industry of novels during his long stay at that country. The social life of the capital supplied too many plots and contents for his writings. His journeys to other part of Europe also fascinated him and provided too many inputs for his works. His travels to Eastern Europe led him to the portrayal of the communist atmosphere which was appreciated by many. He was also fortunate to make an around the world journey. I have never been able to write a novel about a country which I have known only as a tourist, and I have never traveled around the world with a notebook in hand, jotting down impressions. (Preface in Simenon: An American Omnibus).