George Frederick Sims, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Frederick Sims

English novelist and antiquarian bookseller

Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1923

Place of Birth: Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Nov-1999

Profession: bookseller, novelist, memoirist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

George Frederick Robert Sims (3 August 1923, Hammersmith – 4 November 1999, Reading, Berkshire), also known as George Sims, was an English antiquarian bookseller and writer of crime thrillers.
He was born in the Hammersmith district of London in 1923, the son of a shoe merchant.
He was educated at the John Lyons School in Harrow.
He married Beryl Simcock in 1943, with whom he would have three children.
He served in the Intelligence Corps in the final years of World War 2.
After the war, he started working at Len Westwood's bookshop in Harrow before setting up as a mail order bookseller under the name of G.F.
Sims.
In 1952, he moved to the village of Hurst in Berkshire and remained there till his death. As a writer, Sims published poetry, crime thrillers, and four volumes of memoirs.
Several of his novels were published in Penguin paperback and won praise from figures such as H.R.F.
Keating, Maurice Richardson, Roy Fuller and Evelyn Waugh.