He divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian Islands, where he is a professional beekeeper. He has published novels and travel books, his latest being The Elephanta Suite. Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967. 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. He also began to write his psychological novels –books in which he displays a sympathetic awareness of the emotional and spiritual pain underlying the routines of daily life. In the early 1930s, Simenon emerged as a writer under his own name, gaining renown for his detective stories featuring Inspector Maigret. 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. Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was born in Liege, Belgium.
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