(Coincidentally or not, the same number claimed by Wilt Chamberlain.) Still, his writing had admirers, and reputable ones. One of his greatest lies, if it was in fact a lie, was that he’d slept with more than ten thousand women. Excess in his writing, in his social life, and particularly in his romantic relationships. That persona was one of excess, which is why it so overshadowed his work. He was widely read in his lifetime, though he was, and still is, recognized more for his persona (the obsessions, lies, and hatefully competitive disposition) than for his prose.
You might find a couple of dusty reprints in a big-box bookstore with a beefy mystery section, but only if you’re really looking. Georges Simenon, author of over four hundred novels and inventor of probably the second-most-famous detective in literature, Jules Maigret, is now, despite the fame of his creation, largely and unjustly forgotten.
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