Danielle Steel

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Danielle Steel is an American writer who was born in New York City on August 14, 1947 as Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel.

During her early childhood she spent a lot of time in France, attending dinner parties which her wealthy parents hosted. Her parents divorced when Danielle was just 7 and she was raised by her father in New York; she rarely saw her mother as she had moved to Europe. From an early age she began writing stories and poems.

Danielle Steel attended Parsons School of Design in 1963 later New York University where she studied literature design and fashion design. She married banker Claude-Eric Lazard when she was just 18 and 9 years later the marriage ended, shortly before her first novel was published. Danielle Steel writes books of both romantic and mainstream genres and, to date, has written over 70 books since 1973, twenty-two of which have been adapted for television.

Danielle Steel doesn’t write sequels to her books which frequently delve into the lives of the rich and famous such as Matters of the Heart and A Good Woman. Many of her books have been translated into 23 different languages and distributed in 47 different countries across the globe. Danielle Steel has also written several non-fiction books and also two children’s fiction series’ of books which address issues which children may experience, such as the arrival of a new baby or starting a new school.

Danielle Steel is regarded as the seventh best selling writer of all time after selling over 550 million copies of her books.