[alice wellintown]

John asked, >Where do you get the time/energy for these screeds? >



On this day in 1989 Georges Simenon died at the age of eighty-six.
Most accounts of Simenon's writing life begin with the numbers: some
500 books published, seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short
stories in the world-famous Inspector Maigret series, a daily output
sometimes as high as eighty pages, total sales sometimes figured as
high as 1.5 billion. Not to mention the dozens of movies, and the
handful of television/radio series -- or one legendary Alfred
Hitchcock story that has him calling Simenon, being told that the
author can't come to the phone because he has just started another
novel, and Hitchcock saying that he will hold.


http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=9/4/2009