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Sidney Sheldon

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Sidney Sheldon

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Also known as Sidney Schechtel

American writer (1917–2007)

OverviewAI-generated

Sidney Sheldon was an American author whose professional career spanned from 1937 until his death on January 30, 2007. Born on February 11, 1917, he produced a body of work that includes titles such as *El Amo Del Juego/Masters of the Game*, *Shiḳui ha-ʻotsmah*, *Kavod mishpaḥti*, and *Best Sellers*.

His literary output is cataloged with 405 works in Open Library records, while Crossref lists five associated works. Sheldon has been recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. His name appears in 408 other encyclopedia articles, and his music has accumulated 8,001 plays from 172 listeners on Last.fm.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
11 February 1917
Died
30 January 2007
Works
405

Top works

  • El Amo Del Juego/Masters of the Game
  • Shiḳui ha-ʻotsmah
  • Kavod mishpaḥti
  • Best Sellers
  • Best Sellers

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1917-02-11
Active to
2007-01-30

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
172
Total plays
8,001

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sidney+Sheldon">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Sidney Sheldon

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A Global Measure of Perceived Stress

    · 1983 · cited 25,786x

  2. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

    · 2012 · cited 17,960x

  3. Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.

    · 1985 · cited 15,236x

  4. Harmonizing the Metabolic Syndrome

    · 2009 · cited 12,608x

  5. Studies of Illness in the Aged

    · 1963 · cited 9,718x

via Crossref · CC0

~13 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1940s and 50s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. He went on to work in television, where over 20 years he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), and Hart to Hart (1979–84). After turning 50, he began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as The Other Side of Midnight (1973), Master of the Game (1982), and Rage of Angels (1980).

Sheldon's novels have sold over 300 million copies in 51 languages. He is consistently cited as one of the top 10 best-selling fiction writers of all time.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sidney Sheldon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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