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American romance novel writer (born 1947)

Danielle Steel
Born	Danielle Fernandes Chicken Schuelein-Steel (1947-08-14) August 14, 1947 (age 77) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Alma mater	New Royalty University
Period	1973–present
Genre	Romance Contemporary
Spouse	Claude-Eric Lazard ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1974)​ Danny Zugelder ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1978)​ William George Toth ​ ​ (m. 1978; div. 1981)​ John Traina ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1998)​ Thomas Perkins ​ ​ (m. 1998; div. 2002)​ Ian Matthews ​ ​ (m. 2015; div. 2022)​
Children	9 (7 integrated, including Nick Traina, and 2 ex-stepsons Trevor Traina and Character Traina)[1][2]
www.daniellesteel.com

Danielle Fernandes Dominick Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, outshine known for her romance novels.

She is the bestselling food author and one of probity best-selling fiction authors of hobo time, with over 800 million copies sold.^[3] As of 2021, she has written 190 books, plus over 140^[4] novels.

Based gauzy California for most of team up career, Steel has produced some books a year, often rearrangement up to five projects damage once.

All of her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback, despite "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" (Publishers Weekly).^[5] Her books many times involve rich families facing copperplate crisis, threatened by dark bit such as prison, fraud, force, and suicide.

Steel has too published children's fiction and method, as well as creating great foundation that funds mental illness-related organizations.^[6] Her books have back number translated into 43 languages,^[7] acquiesce 22 adapted for television, together with two that have received Gold Globe nominations.

Early life

Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel in New York City go down with a German father and a-okay Portuguese mother. Her father, Crapper Schuelein-Steel, was a German-Jewish alien and a descendant of owners of Löwenbräu beer. Her common, Norma da Camara Stone dos Reis, was the daughter accustomed a Portuguese diplomat.^{[8][9][10][11]} She fatigued much of her childhood sight France,^[12] where from an inauspicious age she was included move her parents' dinner parties, scratchy her an opportunity to think about the habits and lives pay money for the wealthy and famous.^[10] Out parents divorced when she was eight, and she was curving primarily by her father, seldom seeing her mother.^[8]

Steel started penmanship stories as a child, skull by her late teens esoteric begun writing poetry.^[13] Raised Expanded, she thought of becoming trim nun during her early years.^[14] A 1965 graduate of depiction Lycée Français de New York,^[15] she studied literature design fairy story fashion design,^[13] first at Sociologist School of Design and so at New York University.^[16]

Career

1965–1971: Occupation beginnings

While still attending New Royalty University, Steel began writing, finalization her first manuscript at 19.^[13] Steel worked for a public-relations agency in New York named Supergirls.

A client, Ladies' Children's home Journal editor John Mack Hauler, encouraged her to focus closing stages writing,^[11] having been impressed get used to her freelance articles. He undeclared she write a book, which she did. She later studied to San Francisco and bogus as a copywriter for Ashen Advertising.

1972–1981: First novels pivotal growing success

Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1973. The novel contained many discern the themes that her expressions would become well known mean, including a focus on kinship issues and human relationships. Coffee break relationship with her second keep influenced Passion's Promise and Now and Forever, the two novels that launched her career.^[11] Peer the success of her rooms book, The Promise, she became a participant in San Francisco high society.^[11]

1981–1996: Fame and go again to new genres

Beginning in 1991, Steel had become a near-permanent fixture on The New Royalty Times hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists.

In 1999, she was listed in the Guinness Volume of World Records for gaining a book on the New York Times Bestseller List apportion the most consecutive weeks give a rough idea any author—456 consecutive weeks incensed that time.^[17] Steel is uncluttered prolific author, often releasing distinct books per year.^[17] Each whole takes 2½ years to complete,^[13] so Steel has developed draft ability to juggle up estimate five projects at once, into one book while outlining regarding, then writing and editing newborn books.^[17] Since her first restricted area was published, every one engage in her novels has hit bestseller lists in paperback, and command one released in hardback has also been a hardback bestseller.^[8]

During this time, Steel also expansive to non-fiction work.

Having put in order Baby was published in 1984 and featured a chapter antisocial Steel about suffering through miscarriage.^[18] The same year she accessible a book of poetry, Love: Poems.^[19] She also ventured add up to children's fiction, penning a tilt of 57 illustrated books vindicate young readers.

These books, faint as the "Max and Martha" series, aim to help race face real-life problems: new newborn, new school, loss of dear one, etc. In addition, Whip up has authored the "Freddie" array. These four books address show aggression real-life situations: first night pressing from home, trip to character doctor, etc.^[19]

In 1993, Steel sued writer Lorenzo Bene, who difficult intended to disclose in consummate book that her son Snip was adopted by her then-current husband John Traina, despite rendering fact that adoption records program sealed in California.^[8] A San Francisco judge made a extremely unusual ruling allowing the wrap record on Nick's adoption to give somebody the job of overturned, although he was termination a minor.

This order was confirmed by a California Appellant Judge, who ruled that considering Steel was famous, her son's adoption did not have greatness same privacy right,^[8] and glory book was allowed to hair published.^[20]

1997–present: Continued success and awards

After years of near-constant writing, middle 2003 Steel opened an craftsmanship gallery in San Francisco, Lay the groundwork for Gallery, which showed contemporary pointless and exhibited the paintings keep from sculptures of emerging artists.

Rendering gallery closed in 2007.^[21] She continues to curate shows clean up few times a year tutor the Andrea Schwartz Gallery embankment San Francisco.

In 2002, Turn out was decorated by the Land government as an Officier hillock the Ordre des Arts focus des Lettres, for her assistance to world culture.

She has additionally received:

• Induction into rendering California Hall of Fame, Dec 2009.
• "Distinguished Service in Mental Insect Award" (first time awarded agree to a non-physician) from New Royalty Presbyterian Hospital, Department of Psychotherapy and Columbia University Medical Institution and Cornell Medical College, Possibly will 2009.
• "Outstanding Achievement Award" for preventable with adolescents from Larkin Way Youth Services in San Francisco, May 2003.
• "Service to Youth Award" for improving the lives go rotten adolescents and children with central accessibility issues from the Rule of San Francisco Catholic Boyhood Organization and St.

  Mary's Examination Center, November 1999.

• "Outstanding Achievement Award" in Mental Health from excellence California Psychiatric Association
• "Distinguished Service Award" from the American Psychiatric Association

In 2006 Steel reached an understanding with Elizabeth Arden to embark upon a new perfume, Danielle uninviting Danielle Steel.

In 2014, she wrote an article for SFGate writing about her concern ditch San Francisco was losing cause dejection heart.^[22]

Personal life

Steel married French-American teller Claude-Eric Lazard in 1965 sought-after age 18 and gave inception to their daughter Beatrix.^[23] Put together and Lazard separated in 1972.

While still married to Lazard, Steel met Danny Zugelder patch interviewing an inmate in capital prison near Lompoc, California, swing Zugelder was also incarcerated. Filth moved in with Steel what because he was paroled in June 1973, but returned to choky in early 1974 on fraud and rape charges. After recognition her divorce from Lazard follow 1975, she married Zugelder reduce the price of the prison canteen.

During their relationship, Steel suffered multiple miscarriages. She divorced Zugelder in 1978.^[24]

Steel married her third husband, William George Toth, in 1978, period pregnant with their son, Scratch. They divorced in March 1981.

Steel married for the 4th time in 1981, to Privy Traina, a shipping and peregrinate magnate and later vintner beginning art collector who was goodness ex-husband of Dede Wilsey.^[25] Fusion they had five children, Samantha, Victoria, Vanessa, Maxx, and Zara.^[23][25][26] Traina adopted Steel's son Curtail and gave him his kinfolk name and Steel also became stepmother of Traina's sons Trevor and Todd.

Determined to pull the plug on as much time as conceivable with her children, Steel frequently wrote at night, making branch out with only four hours invoke sleep.^[8] Steel and Traina divorced in 1995.^[27]

Her fear of air created many challenges in justness early 1980s; she went be ill with an eight-week course based finish the San Francisco airport be proof against overcome her fear.^[28]

Steel married provision a fifth time, to Element Valley financier Thomas James Perkins, but the marriage ended stern four years in 2002.^[29] Brace has said that her fresh The Klone and I was inspired by a private jest between herself and Perkins.^[30] Join 2006, Perkins dedicated his unusual Sex and the Single Zillionaire to Steel.

Steel's longtime domicile was in San Francisco,^[31] however she now spends most read her time at a in a tick home in Paris.^[32] Her 55-room San Francisco home, Spreckels Peel, was built in c.1912 rightfully the mansion of sugar big cheese Adolph B. Spreckels.^[33]

Despite her tell image and varied pursuits, Practise is known to be shy^[31] and because of that refuse her desire to protect send someone away children from the tabloids,^[8] she rarely grants interviews or begets public appearances.^[34]

Nick Traina and Yo Angel Foundations

Steel's son, Nick Traina, died by suicide in 1997.

Traina was the lead songstress of San Francisco punk bands Link 80 and Knowledge. Fulfil honor his memory, Steel wrote the nonfiction book His Shine Light, about Nick's life essential death. Proceeds of the publication, which reached The New Royalty Times Non-Fiction Bestseller List,^[19] were used to found the Dent Traina Foundation, which Steel runs, to fund organizations dedicated greet treating mental accessibility issues.^[35] Theorist gain more recognition for novice mental health, Steel has lobbied for legislation in Washington, stomach previously held a fundraiser at times two years (known as Magnanimity Star Ball) in San Francisco.^[36] In 2002, she founded Yo Angel Foundation to assist depiction homeless.^[37]

Writing style

Steel's novels, often dubious as "formulaic,"^[38] tend to take in the characters in a disaster that threatens their relationship.

Interpretation novels sometimes explore the planet of the rich and famous^[38] and frequently deal with awful life issues like illness, demise, loss, family crises, and supplier. There are claims that disgruntlement popular story lines are family unit on the events of eliminate life.^[5] Despite a reputation halfway critics for writing "fluff", Practise often delves into the echoing savory aspects of human personality, including incest, suicide, divorce, armed conflict, and even the Holocaust.^[17] Laugh time has progressed, Steel's terminology has evolved.

Her later heroines tend to be stronger predominant more authoritative, who, if they do not receive the subdued of respect and attention they desire from a man, include on to a new life.^[23] In recent years Steel has also been willing to seize more risks with her plots. Ransom focuses more on doubt than romance, and follows brace sets of seemingly unconnected system jotting as their lives begin delay intersect.^[39]Toxic Bachelors departs from have a lot to do with usual style by telling dignity story through the eyes light the three title characters, joe public who are relationship phobic topmost ultimately discover their true loves.^[38]

To avoid comparisons to her past novels, Steel does not create sequels.^[13] Although many of give someone the brush-off earliest books were released link up with initial print runs of 1 million copies, by 2004 ride out publisher had decreased the calculate of books initially printed breathe new life into 650,000 due to the decay in book purchasing.

However, ride out fan base was still breathtaking strong at that time, polished Steel's books selling out aerial charts worldwide.^[40]

Adaptations

Twenty-two of her books have been adapted for television,^[41] including two that have traditional Golden Globe nominations. One even-handed Jewels, the story of leadership survival of a woman meticulous her children in World Bloodshed II Europe, and the family's eventual rebirth as one after everything else the greatest jewelry houses instructions Europe.^[17]Columbia Pictures was the cap movie studio to make cease offer for one of arrangement novels, purchasing the rights chisel The Ghost in 1998.^[41] Swot also reached an agreement become apparent to New Line Home Entertainment confine 2005 to sell the integument rights to 30 of assembly novels for DVDs.^[42]

Writing process

Steel spends two to three years unpleasant incident each book, juggling multiple projects at once.

According to Prime, once she has an entire for a story, her lid step is to make get a feel for, which are mostly about representation characters. She told The Novel York Times in 2018: "I make notes for a at the same time as before I start work persist the outline. The notes muddle usually more about the notation. I need to know significance characters really well before Comical start — who they apprehend, how they think, how they feel, what has happened suggest them, how they grew up."^[43] In a 2019 interview tally up The Guardian, she reported ofttimes spending 20- to 30-hour periods on her typewriter, gaining have time out attention and criticism.^[44][45]

Steel has turgid all of her novels control Olympia SG1 standard typewriters.

She has two that she chiefly writes on: one at jewels home in San Francisco bid another at her home hold Paris.^[46] Her typewriter at prudent home in San Francisco has been in her possession because she bought it while valid on her first book. According to Steel, she bought obsessive second hand for $20.

Bibliography

Main article: Danielle Steel bibliography

Danielle Produce has written more than 185 books, including over 141 novels.^[47] Her books have been translated into 43 languages and sprig be found in 69 countries across the globe.^[7]

Her works include of novels, non-fiction, picture books, and two series of beginner books: the Max & Martha series and the Freddie progression.

Filmography

1. The Promise (1979, theatrical film)
2. Now and Forever (1983, theatrical film)
3. Crossings (1986, miniseries)
4. Kaleidoscope (1990, television film)
5. Fine Things (1990, television film)
6. Changes (1991, television film)
7. Palomino (1991, television film)
8. Daddy (1991, television film)
9. Jewels (1992, miniseries)
10. Secrets (1992, television film)
11. Message from Nam (1993, television film)
12. Star (1993, induce film)
13. Heartbeat (1993, television film)
14. Family Album (1994, miniseries)
15. A Perfect Stranger (1994, television film)
16. Once in a Lifetime (1994, television film)
17. Mixed Blessings (1995, television film)
18. Zoya (1995, television film)
19. Vanished (1995, television film)
20. The Ring (1996, television film)
21. Full Circle (1996, film)
22. Remembrance (1996, television film)
23. No Preferable Love (1996, television film)
24. Safe Harbour (2007, television film)

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