Danielle Steel
Novelist, Author
1947 –
Who is Danielle Steel?
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel, better known by the name Danielle Steel, is an American novelist, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.
Based in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. All her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback. Her formula is fairly consistent, often involving rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as jail, fraud, blackmail and suicide. Steel has also published children's fiction and poetry, as well as raising funds for the treatment of mental illness. Her books have been translated into 28 languages, with 22 adapted for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations.
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- Born
- Aug 14, 1947
New York City - Also known as
- danielle_steel
- Danielle Fernande Schuelein
- Spouses
- Thomas Perkins
(1998 - 2002) - William Toth
(1978 - 1981) - Claude-Eric Lazard
(1965 - 1974) - John Traina
(1981 - 1998) - Danny Zugelder
(1975 - 1978)
- Thomas Perkins
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Lycée Français de New York
- New York University
- Parsons The New School for Design
- Lived in
- San Francisco
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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