His father died when he was nine, and his mother was institutionalized due to alcoholism.

At the age of twelve, the teenager was placed with his grandparents, then with his aunt. Later, he attended a special school where he displayed exceptional aptitude for arithmetic and drawing. He also demonstrated a remarkable memory and was gifted at mental calculation. In 1979, he joined the US Air Force in West Germany, where he worked in intelligence. In his free time, George Widener devoted himself to drawing. Subsequently, his unstable psychological state led to several stays in psychiatric institutions, where he was diagnosed with autism. He suffers from Asperger's syndrome. George Widener's work takes the form of calendars, diagrams, inventories, graphs, and calculation tables filled with numbers, letters, and symbols of mysterious meaning. Through the recurrence of events, Widener seeks to predict catastrophes. From his learned calculations was born a mysterious work, a prophecy of chaos.