"They have everything!" Georges Simenon in Arizona.

From: Journal of the Southwest | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The annals of Southwestern literature seldom include Georges Simenon (1903-1989), but he was here all right, just after the Second World War. The Belgian-born, Francophone author of some two hundred novels, including the world-famous Inspector Maigret detective stories, lived for more than two years in southern Arizona and wrote four remarkable "Westerns" chronicling the region's mores and mentalities during the postwar boom years. A half-century later, this period in our culture is suddenly a hot topic. Simenon's portrayal of life in America in the late 1940s and early 1950s is ...

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