Danielle Steel

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• Born: 14 August 1947
• Birthplace: New York, New York
• Best Known As: Author of the romance novels Jewels and Crossings

Danielle Steel's romance novels have sold millions of copies in dozens of languages and have kept her on the bestseller lists since the 1980s. Steel started her professional career in public relations and advertising, then turned to writing novels in the early 1970s. Like Barbara Cartland and Stephen King, Steel has offset the snubs of the literati with enormous popular success, and many of her novels, including Crossings (1982), Changes (1983) and Jewels (1992) have been made into TV movies (especially during the early 1990s). She has also written a series of children's books (called the Max and Martha series) and a few non-fiction books, including 1998's His Bright Light, a tribute to her son, Nick Traina, who committed suicide at the age of 19 after battling substance abuse and mental illness.

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Danielle Steel (born 1947) is an internationally best selling author of over thirty romance novels. Since publishing her first book in 1973, Steel has acquired an enormous following of loyal, avid readers.

Steel was born on August 14, 1947, in New York City, the only child of John Schuelein-Steel, a member of Munich's wealthy Lowenbrau beer family, and Norma Schuelein-Steel, an international beauty from Portugal. Steel's parents divorced when she was seven or eight years old. Afterwards, she was raised by relatives and servants in Paris and New York. She graduated from the Lycee Francais when she was not quite fifteen and in 1963 entered New York's Parsons School of Design. However, she soon abandoned her dream of becoming "the new Chanel" when the pressure to succeed caused her to develop a stomach ulcer. She then enrolled at New York University, where she studied until 1967. When she was eighteen, Steel married her first husband, a French banker with homes in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Within a few years, she became bored with her jet-setting lifestyle and, against her husband's wishes, decided to find a job. In 1968, she was hired as vice president of public relations and new business for Supergirls, a Manhattan public relations and advertising agency. A few years later the five-woman firm began to falter and Steel was looking to the future.

One of her clients, then the editor of Ladies' Home Journal, suggested she try writing, so Steel isolated herself at her home in San Francisco and wrote her first book, Going Home. Published by Dell paperbacks in 1973, the novel had moderate sales. Around the same time, Steel's marriage broke up, and she turned to writing in earnest. However, she composed five more novels that were rejected before Passion's Promise was published by Dell in 1977. During these years she also wrote advertising copy as well as poems about love and motherhood that appeared in women's magazines. Some of these poems were included in the abridged edition of her only volume of poetry, Love Poems: Danielle Steel (1981), which came out in 1984. After Passion's Promise, Dell published three more of Steel's romances: The Promise (1978), a novelization of a screenplay by Garry Michael White, Now and Forever (1978), which was adapted for a film released by Inter Planetary Pictures in 1983, and Season of Passion (1979). Sales of The Promise, Steel's first big success, reached two million copies in 1979, and in the same year she signed a six-figure contract with Dell.

Steel set a grueling pace for herself, composing two to three novels a year, and in the early 1980s several more best-selling paperbacks appeared. In addition, Dell's affiliate, Delacorte, began publishing Steel's books in hardcover. Thurston House (1983) was the last of her novels to originate as a paperback. Steel tailors her work habits to meet family considerations. In 1981 she married John Traina, a shipping executive who, like herself, had two children. The couple has since produced five children together. Steel works in concentrated marathon sessions, which affords her blocks of time she can devote to her large family. Unlike many of her heroines, Steel shies away from the limelight, refusing to do promotional tours, and lives a relatively quiet life that is frequently far from glamorous. When writing, she has been known to work eighteen-hour days, typing away on a 1948 metal-body Olympia in a flannel nightgown.

Though she is an extremely wealthy woman - she recently signed a sixty-million-dollar contract with Delacorte - Steel shows no signs of relaxing her frantic pace. In 1994 she published three more novels, Accident, The Gift, and Wings, and since 1989, she has produced two series of books for children, the "Max and Martha" series and the "Freddie" series. Steel's romances feature both contemporary and historical settings, and their exotic and exciting locales offer readers fast-paced escape from the routine of daily life. They typically focus on a glamorous, well-to-do heroine who proves that women can "have it all": love, family, and career. However, Steel's characters are beset by obstacles on their road to fulfillment; often they are confronted with the task of rebuilding their life after an emotionally crippling tragedy. Sometimes Steel's heroines have one or more unlucky romances before they find lasting love, but all their relationships with men lead them to increased self-awareness, which, in many cases, helps them to establish successful careers.

A sampling of Steel's plots illustrates these themes. The heroine of Passion's Promise is a beautiful young journalist, Kezia St. Martin, who temporarily puts her career on hold to be with her lover, who is a social activist. The romance ends in tragedy but it provides St. Martin with the grounding she needs to come to terms with her family's affluence and to realize her goal of becoming a renowned writer. Family Album (1985) is about a famous actress who forsakes stardom to marry a wealthy playboy, watches anxiously as her husband squanders their fortune, and then achieves success as an Oscar-winning director. Zoya (1988) traces the eventful and dramatic life of the beautiful and resourceful Russian countess Zoya Ossupov. When the violent October Revolution explodes, she loses her position, wealth, and much of her family, and she flees to Paris, where she falls in love with a wealthy American army officer, whom she marries. Zoya and her husband live an exciting life in New York City during the Roaring Twenties but her happiness is destroyed once again when the stock market crashes, bankrupts her husband, and causes him to suffer a fatal heart attack. Another marriage brings more heartache. Zoya's second husband, a Seventh Avenue mogul who helps her launch a chain of department stores, enlists in the armed forces after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and is killed in action. Brokenhearted, but not broken, Zoya summons her courage and makes a new life for herself. Message from Nam (1990) takes the lovely, intelligent Paxton Andrews from her native Savannah, Georgia, to her college years at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studies journalism, and then to her life as a war correspondent in Vietnam. Paxton loses her first two loves to the war. When a third boyfriend is reported missing in action, Paxton abandons hope that he is still alive, but they finally find each other, and they take one of the last helicopters home from Saigon.

In Kaleidoscope (1987) and No Greater Love (1991) Steel turns her attention to the love shared by siblings. Kaleidoscope is the story of three young sisters who are separated after their father kills their mother in a jealous rage and then commits suicide; the girls grow up living completely different lives yet after many trials and tribulations they are eventully reunited. One of the sisters survives the horrors of rape and incest to become a powerful television network executive. No Greater Love concerns a twenty-one-year-old woman, Edwina Winfield, who takes it upon herself to care for her younger brothers and sisters after their parents die on the Titanic, a tragedy that also claims the life of Edwina's fiance. Edwina's burdens are eased by her family's wealth, but she nonetheless makes great sacrifices and endures much loneliness in an effort to keep her brothers and sisters together.

In a few of her novels, Steel shifts her focus to male characters. Fine Things (1987), for example, is about a department store executive, Bernard Fine, whose beloved wife dies from cancer a few years after their marriage, and Daddy (1989) describes the emotional recovery of Oliver Watson after his wife of eighteen years abandons him and their three children. Secrets (1985), another uncharacteristic novel, has six major characters, all of whom work on the set of a television soap opera.

While Steel can lay claim to one of the largest reader-ships in popular fiction, she is anything but a favorite among critics. Even when reviewers acknowledge that Steel is a commercial writer who does not pretend to write serious literature, they seem compelled to point out what they see as major weaknesses in her novels: bad writing, shallow characterization, preposterous plot twists, unconvincing dialogue, and rigid adherence to the "poor little rich girl" formula. Her novels are also faulted as being unrealistic because they focus on the lives of the wealthy and privileged. Critics reserve their harshest comments for Steel's prose style, which is generally considered to be sloppy and careless. A number of critics have expressed amazement that Steel's books do not undergo more extensive editing, and some have appeared to take delight in pointing out her run-on sentences, non sequiturs, and frequent repetition of certain words and phrases. In a review of Daddy, for example, Edna Stumpf remarked, "Ms. Steel plays with the themes of love and work like a child with a Barbie doll. She strips a life down, only to dress it up in billows of her famous free-associative prose, as scattered with commas as a Bob Mackie gown is with bugle beads." While some critics might prefer to dismiss Steel without comment, her enormous popularity makes her impossible to ignore. Beginning with her third hardcover, Crossings (1982), all of Steel's novels have received coverage in the New York Times Book Review. Steel responded to her critics in the Spring, 1987, issue of Booktalk: "Each book is different. I do historical plots, books about men, about women, about totally different things. I don't think the press likes big commercial authors. I have seen devastating reviews on my books, Jackie Collins', Judith Krantz', and Sidney Sheldon's books. We all get beaten up by the press. They usually pick a remote, esoteric writer to do the review, which is so unfair. There is obviously something to our books or millions of people wouldn't be buying them." Despite their low appraisals of Steel's talents as a writer, critics concede that her tear-jerking tragedies and happy endings meet some need in her millions of readers, be it a desire for satisfying diversion or for emotional catharsis.

Steel's fans have also been able to enjoy her stories in the form of television movies. In 1986 Crossings was presented as an ABC miniseries starring Cheryl Ladd, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer; NBC made television movies from Kaleidoscope and Fine Things in 1990, and aired Palomino (1981), Changes (1983), and Daddy in 1991; a miniseries called Danielle Steel's "Zoya," with Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner. Several of Steel's other novels, including Thurston House and Wanderlust (1986), have also been optioned for television films and miniseries.

Further Reading

Bestsellers 89, Issue 1, Gale, 1989.

Bestsellers 90, Issue 4, Gale, 1991.

Chicago Tribune, June 3, 1996; December 29, 1996.

Chicago Tribune Book World, August 28, 1983.

Detroit Free Press, December 1, 1989.

Detroit News, September 11, 1983.

Globe & Mail (Toronto), July 9, 1988.

Library Journal, September 1, 1993; October 15, 1993.

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Danielle Steel
Born	Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel August 14, 1947 (1947-08-14) (age 64) New York City, U.S.
Pen name	Danielle Steel
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Period	1978–present
Genres	mainstream, romance
Spouse(s)	Claude-Eric Lazard (1965–1974; divorced) Danny Zugelder (1975–1978; divorced) William Toth (1978–1981; divorced) John Traina (1981–1998; divorced) Tom Perkins (1998–2002; divorced)
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www.daniellesteel.com

Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947), better known as Danielle Steel, is an American romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas.

Best known for drama and romance novels, Steel has sold more than 800 million copies of her books (as of 2005) worldwide and is the eighth best selling writer of all time, and is currently the bestselling author alive. Her novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks^[1] and 22 have been adapted for television.

Contents 1 Early years 2 Early career 3 Personal life 3.1 Nicholas Traina 3.2 1997–present 4 Writing 5 Bibliography 5.1 Novels 5.2 Non-fiction 5.3 Picture Books 5.4 Children's books 5.4.1 Max & Martha series 5.4.2 Freddie series 6 Filmography 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

Early years

Steel was born in New York City. She is the only child of Norma da Câmara Stone dos Reis, the daughter of a Portuguese diplomat, and John Schulein-Steel, a descendant of the founders of Löwenbräu beer.^[2][3] Steel spent much of her early childhood in France,^[4] where from an early age she was included in her parents' dinner parties, giving her an opportunity to observe the habits and lives of the wealthy and famous.^[2] Her parents divorced when she was eight, however, and she was raised primarily in New York City and Europe by her father, rarely seeing her mother.^[1]

Steel started writing stories as a child, and by her late teens had begun writing poetry.^[5] A graduate of the Lycée Français de New York, class of 1963,^[6] she studied literature design and fashion design,^[5] first at Parsons School of Design in 1963 and then at New York University from 1963–1967.^[7]

Early career

In 1965, when she was only 18, Steel married banker Claude-Eric Lazard.^[8] While a young wife, and still attending New York University, Steel began writing, completing her first manuscript the following year, when she was nineteen.^[5] After the birth of their daughter, Beatrix, in 1966,^[9] Steel worked for a public relations agency in New York called Supergirls for several years. A magazine client was highly impressed with her freelance articles and encouraged her to focus on writing and suggested she write a book, which she did. She later moved to San Francisco, and worked for Grey Advertising, as a copywriter.

Personal life

After many years of separation, Steel and Lazard divorced after nine years of marriage. They had one daughter, Beatrix. In 1972 her first novel, Going Home, was published. The novel contained many of the themes that her writing would become known for, including a focus on family issues and human relationships.

While still married to Lazard, Steel met Danny Zugelder while interviewing an inmate in a prison near Lompoc, California, where Zugelder was also incarcerated. He moved in with Steel when he was paroled in June 1973, but returned to prison in early 1974 on robbery and rape charges. After receiving her divorce from Lazard in 1975, she married Zugelder in the prison canteen. She divorced him in 1978, but the relationship spawned Passion's Promise and Now and Forever, the two novels that launched her successful career.^[3]

Steel married her third husband, William Toth, the day after her divorce from Zugelder was finalized. She was already 8½ months pregnant with his child, Nicholas. With the success of her fourth book, The Promise, she became a participant in San Francisco high society while Toth, a former drug addict, was left out. They divorced in March 1981.^[3]

Steel married for the fourth time in 1981, to vintner John Traina.^[9] Traina subsequently adopted Steel's son Nick and gave him his family name. Together they had an additional five children, Samantha (April 14, 1982), Victoria (September 5, 1983), Vanessa (December 18, 1984), Maxx (February 10, 1986) and Zara (September 26, 1987).^[8][9]

Coincidentally, beginning with her marriage to Traina in 1981, Steel has been a near-permanent fixture on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists. In 1989, she was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having a book on the New York Times Bestseller List for the most consecutive weeks of any author—381 consecutive weeks at that time.^[10] Since her first book was published, every one of her novels has hit bestseller lists in paperback, and each one released in hardback has also been a hardback bestseller.^[1] During this time Steel also contributed to her first non-fiction work. Having a Baby was published in 1984 and featured a chapter by Steel about suffering through miscarriage.^[11] The same year she also published a book of poetry, Love: Poems.^[12]

Steel also ventured into children's fiction, penning a series of 10 illustrated books for young readers. These books, known as the "Max and Martha" series, aim to help children face real life problems: new baby, new school, loss of loved one, etc. In addition, Steel has authored the "Freddie" series. These 4 books address other real life situations: first night away from home, trip to the doctor, etc.^[12]

Determined to spend as much time as possible with her own children, Steel often wrote at night, making do with only four hours of sleep, so that she could be with her children during the day.^[1] Steel is a prolific author, often releasing several books per year.^[10] Each book takes 2½ years to complete,^[5] so Steel has developed an ability to juggle up to five projects at once, researching one book while outlining another, then writing and editing additional books.^[10]

Nicholas Traina

In 1993 Steel sued a writer who intended to disclose in her book that her son Nick was adopted by her then-current husband John Traina, despite the fact that adoption records are sealed in California.^[1] A San Francisco judge made a highly unusual ruling allowing the seal on Nick's adoption to be overturned, although he was still a minor. The order was confirmed by a California Appellate Judge, who ruled that because Steel was famous, her son's adoption did not have the same privacy right,^[1] and the book was allowed to be published.^[13]

The son at the center of the lawsuits, Nicholas Traina, committed suicide in 1997 as a result of bipolar disorder.^[14] Traina was the lead singer of San Francisco punk bands Link 80 and Knowledge. In honor of his memory, Steel wrote the nonfiction book His Bright Light, about Nick's life and death. Proceeds of the book, which reached the New York Times NonFiction Bestseller List^[12] were used to found the Nick Traina Foundation, which Steel runs, to fund organizations dedicated to treating mental illness.^[15] To gain more recognition for children's mental illnesses, Steel has lobbied for legislation in Washington, and previously held a fundraiser every two years (known as The Star Ball) in San Francisco.^[16]

1997–present

Steel married for a fifth time, to Silicon Valley financier Tom Perkins, but the marriage ended after 4 years in 2002.^[17] Steel has said that her novel The Klone and I was inspired by a private joke between herself and Perkins.^[18] In 2006, Perkins dedicated his novel Sex and the Single Zillionaire to Steel.

After years of near-constant writing, in 2003 Steel opened an art gallery in San Francisco, Steel Gallery, which showed contemporary work and exhibited the paintings and sculptures of emerging artists. The gallery subsequently closed in 2007.^[19] She continues to curate shows once or twice a year for the Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco.

In 2002, Steel was decorated by the French government as an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, for her contributions to world culture.

She has additionally received:

Induction into the California Hall of Fame, December, 2009.

"Distinguished Service in Mental Health Award" (first time awarded to a non-physician) from New York Presbyterian Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Columbia University Medical School and Cornell Medical College, May, 2009.

"Outstanding Achievement Award" for work with adolescents from Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco, May, 2003.

"Service to Youth Award" for improving the lives of mentally ill adolescents and children from the University of San Francisco Catholic Youth Organization and St. Mary's Medical Center, November, 1999.

"Outstanding Achievement Award" in Mental Health from the California Psychiatric Association

"Distinguished Service Award" from the American Psychiatric Association

In 2006 Steel reached an agreement with Elizabeth Arden to launch a new perfume, Danielle by Danielle Steel.

Steel's longtime residence was in San Francisco,^[19] but she now spends most of her time at a second home in Paris.^[20] Despite her public image and varied pursuits, Steel is known to be shy^[19] and because of that and her desire to protect her children from the tabloids,^[1] she rarely grants interviews or public appearances.^[21] Her 55-room San Francisco home was built in 1913 as the mansion of sugar tycoon Adolph B. Spreckels.^[22]

Writing

Steel's novels have been translated into 28 languages and can be found in 47 countries across the globe.^[10] The books, often described as "formulaic,"^[23] tend to involve the characters in a crisis of some sort which threatens their relationship. Many of her characters are considered over-the-top, making her books seem less realistic.^[24] The novels sometimes explore the world of the "rich and famous" ^[23] and frequently deal with serious life issues, like illness, death, loss, family crises, and relationships.

Despite a reputation among critics for writing "fluff", Steel often delves into the less savory aspects of human nature, including incest, suicide, divorce, war, and even the Holocaust.^[10] As time has progressed, Steel's writing has evolved. Her later heroines tend to be stronger and more authoritative, who, if they do not receive the level of respect and attention they desire from a man, move on to a new life.^[8] In recent years Steel has also been willing to take more risks with her plots. Ransom focuses more on suspense than romance, and follows three sets of seemingly unconnected characters as their lives begin to intersect.^[25] Toxic Bachelors departs from her usual style by telling the story through the eyes of the three title characters, men who are relationship phobic and ultimately discover their true loves.^[23]

Steel has been criticized for making her books overly redundant and detailed,^[26] explicitly telling the story to readers instead of showing it to them. This sometimes has the effect of making the readers feel like they are on the outside looking in rather than living the story.^[27]

To avoid comparisons to her previous novels, Steel does not write sequels.^[5] Although many of her earliest books were released with initial print runs of 1 million copies, by 2004 her publisher had decreased the number of books initially printed to 650,000 due to the decline in people buying books. However, her fan base is still extremely strong with Steel's books selling out atop charts worldwide.^[28]

Twenty-two of her books have been adapted for television,^[29] including two that have received Golden Globe nominations. One is Jewels, the story of the survival of a woman and her children in World War II Europe, and the family's eventual rebirth as one of the greatest jewelry houses in Europe.^[10] Columbia Pictures was the first movie studio to offer for one of her novels, purchasing the rights to The Ghost in 1998.^[29] Steel also reached an agreement with New Line Home Entertainment in 2005 to sell the film rights to 30 of her novels for DVDs.

Bibliography

Novels

Year	Title
1973	Going Home
1977	Passion's Promise
1978	Now And Forever
1978p	The Promise
1979	Golden Moments
1979	Season of Passion
1979	Summer's End
1980	The Ring
1981	Palomino
1981	To Love Again
1981	Remembrance
1981	Loving
1982	Once In A Lifetime
1982	Crossings
1983	A Perfect Stranger
1983	Thurston House
1983	Changes
1984	Full Circle*
1985	Family Album*
1985	Secrets
1986	Wanderlust*
1987	Fine Things*
1987	Kaleidoscope*
1988	Zoya*
1989	Star*
1989	Daddy*
1990	Message From Nam
1991	Heartbeat*
1991	No Greater Love
1992	Jewels*
1992	Mixed Blessings*
1993	Vanished
1994	Accident*
1994	The Gift*
1994	Wings
1995	Lightning
1995	Five Days In Paris*
1996	Malice
1996	Silent Honor*
1997	The Ranch
1997	Special Delivery*
1997	The Ghost*
1998	The Long Road Home*
1998	The Klone and I*
1998	His Bright Light
1998	Mirror Image
1999	Bittersweet*
1999	Granny Dan
1999	Irresistible Forces
2000	The Wedding*
2000	The House On Hope Street*
2000	Journey
2001	Lone Eagle
2001	Leap Of Faith*
2001	The Kiss*
2002	The Cottage
2002	Sunset in St. Tropez (novel)
2002	Answered Prayers*
2003	Dating Game
2003	Johnny Angel*
2003	Safe Harbour
2004	Ransom
2004	Second Chance
2004	Echoes
2005	Impossible
2005	Miracle
2005	Toxic Bachelors
2006	The House*
2006	Coming Out
2006	H.R.H.
2007	Sisters
2007	Bungalow 2
2007	Amazing Grace
2008	Honor Thyself
2008	Rogue
2008	A Good Woman
2009	One Day at a Time
2009	Matters Of The Heart
2009	Southern Lights
2010	Big Girl
2010	Family Ties
2010	Legacy
2011	44 Charles Street
2011	Happy Birthday
2011	Hotel Vendome

• *Denotes New York Times Number 1 Hardcover Fiction Bestseller^[30]

Non-fiction

• Love: Poems (1984)
• Having a Baby (1984)
• His Bright Light (1998)

Picture Books

• The Happiest Hippo in the World (2009)

Children's books

Max & Martha series

• Martha's New Daddy (1989)
• Max and the Babysitter (1989)
• Martha's Best Friend (1989)
• Max's Daddy Goes to the Hospital (1989)
• Max's New Baby (1989)
• Martha's New School (1989)
• Max Runs Away (1990)
• Martha's New Puppy (1990)
• Max and Grandma and Grampa Winky (1991)
• Martha and Hilary and the Stranger (1991)

Freddie series

• Freddie's Trip (1992)
• Freddie's First Night Away (1992)
• Freddie and the Doctor (1992)
• Freddie's Accident (1992)

Filmography

1. The Promise (1979)
2. Now and Forever (1983)
3. Crossings (1986)
4. Kaleidoscope (1990)
5. Fine Things (1990)
6. Changes (1991)
7. Palomino (1991)
8. Daddy (1991)
9. Jewels (1992)
10. Secrets (1992)
11. Message from Nam (1993)
12. Star (1993) (TV)
13. Heartbeat (1993)
14. Family Album (1994)
15. A Perfect Stranger (1994)
16. Once in a Lifetime (1994)
17. Mixed Blessings (1995)
18. Zoya (1995)
19. Vanished (1995)
20. The Ring (1996)
21. Full Circle (1996)
22. Remembrance (1996)
23. No Greater Love (1996)
24. Safe Harbour (2007)
25. Hotel Vendome (2013) to be directed by Gary Fleder

See also

Children's literature portal

• List of bestselling novels in the United States
• List of bestselling fiction authors

References

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18. ^ Donnally, Trish (February 26, 1998). "A New Chapter in Steel Romance". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/02/26/DD44826.DTL&hw=danielle+steel&sn=011&sc=603. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
19. ^ ^{a b c} Baker, Kenneth (September 30, 2003). "Danielle Steel to open gallery for lesser-knowns". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/30/DD276604.DTL. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
20. ^ Kaufman, David (7 May 2011). "Danielle Steel". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704436004576299613789670544.html. "For much of her career, Danielle Steel was best known as a couture-clad San Francisco writer and society gal with a handful of husbands and a soccer-team's worth of kids. But the author—who has sold nearly 600 million books—now lives mostly in Paris, happily husband-less…'San Francisco is a great city to raise children, but I was very happy to leave it. There's no style, nobody dresses up—you can't be chic there. It's all shorts and hiking books and Tevas—it's as if everyone is dressed to go on a camping trip. I don't think people really care how they look there; and I look like a mess when I'm there, too.'" 
21. ^ Carroll, Jerry (January 7, 1997). "Danielle Steel Says Biography Wrecked Her Marriage". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/01/07/DD31213.DTL&hw=danielle+steel&sn=006&sc=649. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
22. ^ "Tour San Francisco: Pacific Heights". iNetours.com. http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/Pacific_Heights.html. Retrieved 2008-01-10. 
23. ^ ^{a b c} Melnick, Sheri (2005). "Toxic Bachelors". RomanticTimes Magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20071017000934/http://romantictimes.com/books_review.php?book=27700. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
24. ^ Melnick, Sheri (2004). "Safe Harbour". Romantic Times Magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20071017000927/http://romantictimes.com/books_review.php?book=21620. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
25. ^ Melnick, Sheri (2004). "Ransom". RomanticTimes Magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20071017000929/http://romantictimes.com/books_review.php?book=22584. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
26. ^ Mbubaegbu, Chine (12 March 2007). "Sisters by Danielle Steel". inthenews.co.uk. http://www.inthenews.co.uk/entertainment/reviews/books/fiction/sisters-by-danielle-steel-$1063528.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
27. ^ Crutcher, Wendy. "Lone Eagle". The Romance Reader. http://www.theromancereader.com/steel-lone.html. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
28. ^ Maryles, Daisy (July 12, 2004). "Steel at 61". Publishers Weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA435220.html?q=danielle+steel. Retrieved 2007-04-19. ^{[dead link]}
29. ^ ^{a b} Fleming, Michael (February 3, 1998). "Col helps Steel break into pic biz". Variety. http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117467327.html?query=danielle+steel. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 
30. ^ List compiled by author

External links

• Official website
• Official UK website
• Personal website
• Danielle Steel at Internet Book List
• Danielle Steel at Random House Australia
• An October 2000 review of His Bright Light by Dr. Jeffrey L. Geller on an American Psychiatric Association website
• Danielle Steel at the Internet Movie Database
• Steel Gallery
• The Nick Traina Foundation
• Works by or about Danielle Steel in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

v d e Danielle Steel works Novels Going Home  · Passion's Promise  · Now And Forever  · The Promise  · Golden Moments  · Season of Passion  · Summer's End  · The Ring  · Palomino  · To Love Again  · Remembrance  · Loving  · Once in a Lifetime  · Crossings  · A Perfect Stranger  · Thurston House  · Changes  · Full Circle  · Family Album  · Secrets  · Wanderlust  · Fine Things  · Kaleidoscope  · Zoya  · Star  · Daddy  · Message from Nam  · Heartbeat  · No Greater Love  · Jewels  · Mixed Blessings  · Vanished  · Accident  · The Gift  · Wings  · Lightning  · Five Days in Paris  · Malice  · Silent Honor  · The Ranch  · Special Delivery  · The Ghost  · The Long Road Home  · The Klone and I  · His Bright Light  · Mirror Image  · Bittersweet  · Granny Dan  · Irresistible Forces  · The Wedding  · The House On Hope Street  · Journey  · Lone Eagle  · Leap of Faith  · The Kiss  · The Cottage  · Sunset in St. Tropez (novel)  · Answered Prayers  · Dating Game  · Johnny Angel  · Safe Harbour  · Ransom  · Second Chance  · Echoes  · Impossible  · Miracle  · Toxic Bachelors  · The House  · Coming Out  · H.R.H.  · Sisters  · Bungalow 2  · Amazing Grace  · Honor Thyself  · Rogue  · A Good Woman  · One Day at a Time  · Matters of the Heart  · Southern Lights  · Big Girl  · Family Ties  · Legacy  · 44 Charles Street  · Happy Birthday Non-fiction Love: Poems (1984)  · Having a Baby (1984)  · His Bright Light (1998) Picture books The Happiest Hippo in the World (2009) Max & Martha series Martha's New Daddy (1989)  · Max and the Babysitter (1989)  · Martha's Best Friend (1989)  · Max's Daddy Goes to the Hospital (1989)  · Max's New Baby (1989)  · Martha's New School (1989)  · Max Runs Away (1990)  · Martha's New Puppy (1990)  · Max and Grandma and Grampa Winky (1991)  · Martha and Hilary and the Stranger (1991) Freddie series Freddie's Trip (1992)  · Freddie's First Night Away (1992)  · Freddie and the Doctor (1992)  · Freddie's Accident (1992) Filmography The Promise (1979)  · Now and Forever (1983)  · Crossings (1986)  · Kaleidoscope (1990)  · Fine Things (1990)  · Changes (1991)  · Palomino (1991)  · Daddy (1991)  · Jewels (1992)  · Secrets (1992)  · Message from Nam (1993)  · Star (1993)  · Heartbeat (1993)  · Family Album (1994)  · A Perfect Stranger (1994)  · Once in a Lifetime (1994)  · Mixed Blessings (1995)  · Zoya (1995)  · Vanished (1995)  · The Ring (1996)  · Full Circle (1996)  · Remembrance (1996)  · No Greater Love (1996)  · Safe Harbour (2007)

Persondata
Name	Schuelein-Steel, Danielle Fernandes Dominique
Alternative names	Steel, Danielle
Short description	American Novelist
Date of birth	August 14, 1947
Place of birth	San Francisco, California (United States)
Date of death
Place of death

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