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Danielle Steel
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American writer
OverviewAI-generated
Danielle Steel is a bestselling author who began her work period in 1978. She is the subject of an official website that serves as her primary online presence.
Steel has nine children. Her professional output includes a significant volume of written material, with one recorded source containing 11,042 characters.
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Film & TV
New York City, New York, USA
Known for
- Bad Henry — Dee Sumpter2018
- The View — Self1997
via TMDB
Official website
Link to the official site · 11,042 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Danielle
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- novel
- Genre
- romance
- Official website
- www.daniellesteel.com
- Number of children
- 9
- Work location
- San Francisco
- Residence
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1950-08-14
- Commons category
- Danielle Steel
- pseudonym
- Danielle Steel
- social media followers
- 31214
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- writing language
- American English
- birth name
- Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schülein-Steel
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. As of 2024, she has written 210 books, including over 182 novels.
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, despite "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" (Publishers Weekly). Her books often involve rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail, and suicide.
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