Georges Joseph Christian Simenon:
(Liege, 12 or 13 February[4] 1903 – Lausanne, 4 September 1989). French-speaking Belgian writer. Simenon became best known to the general public as the author of 75 detective novels and 28 novellas about Maigret. He also wrote another 136 psychological novels and hundreds of other stories and novellas. He also initially wrote under the pseudonyms Georges Sim, Christian Brulls, Gom Gut, Georges d’Isly, Jean du Perry, Jean Dorsage, Jacques Dorsonne, Luc Dorsan, Georges-Martin-Georges and Gaston Vialis.
Surely it is madness that people see life as it is and not as it should be.