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Danielle Steel (born Danielle Fernande
Schuelein-Steel on August 14, 1947 in New York City, New York) is one of
the best-selling authors in the history of the United States.
Best known for her romance novels, as at
2005, Steel has sold more than 530 million copies of her books. one or
more of her novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for
over 390 consecutive weeks and twenty-one of them have been adapted for
television.
Steel started writing stories as a child,
and by her late teens had begun writing poetry. A graduate of the Lycée
Français de New York, class of 1965, she went on to study at New York
University and in Europe. At age ninteen she completed her first novel
and was first published after years of frustration in 1973.
In addition to her novels for adults, Steel
has written the "Max and Martha" series of books for young readers. She
has also written the "Freddie" books, four of them, about real-life
situations in children's lives, like a visit to the doctor and the first
night away from home. Steel has published a book of poetry and has also
written two nonfiction books, Having a Baby, and His Bright Light, the
latter about the life and death of her son Nicholas Traina. An October
2000 copyright article of the American Psychiatric Association provided
a review by Dr. Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., M.P.H. of Danielle Steel's book
about her son's illness. That review can be read here.
As a result of her own dysfunctional
family, Steel maintains a strong interest in the well-being of children,
and has raised nine of her own. She has been married to Claude-Eric
Lazard, Danny Zugelder, William Toth, John Traina, and Tom Perkins. She
was first married at age eighteen and had one daughter. This was
followed by a brief second marriage to a convicted rapist and she soon
found herself pregnant out of wedlock with her second child by the
heroin addicted William Toth. She married him shortly before giving
birth to their son whom she named Nicholas but they divorced and she
married for the fourth time to John Traina, someone with two sons of his
own. Traina subsequently adopted Nick and gave him his family name. With
John Traina, Steel gave birth to four daughters and a son but that
marriage too ended in divorce as did her fifth marriage to businessman
Tom Perkins.
For her lifetime contribution to world
culture, in 2002 the French government decorated Danielle Steel as a
"Chevalier" of the distinguished Order of Arts and Letters.
Danielle Steel has a home in Pacific
Heights, San Francisco, California and in 2003 opened an art gallery in
the city to exhibit the paintings and sculptures of emerging artists.
She also maintains a residence in France where she spends several months
of each year. She is of German Jewish and Portuguese heritage.
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