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Biography of Danielle Steel
Name: Danielle Steel
Birth Date: August 14, 1947
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer
Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel (born 1947) is an internationally best-selling author of over fifty 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 …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…by the American Standards Association standardize U.S. film speeds"Steve Canyon" debuted on newspaper comic pagesOral Roberts, 29, was an Oklahoma faith healerJohn Steinbeck published The Wayward BusHarry S Truman was presidentThe times:1950-1953: Korean War1957-1975: Vietnam War1990-1991: Gulf WarSteel's contemporaries:Nora Ephron (1941-) American writerAnne Tyler (1941-) American writerJ. Danforth Quayle (1947-) American politicianNolan Ryan (1947-) American baseball playerDavid Letterman (1947-) American comedianStephen King (1947-) American writerSelected world events:1949: General Mills and Pillsbury introduced prepared cake mixes1955: Richard J. Daley began 21-year career as Chicago's mayor1964: U.S. gasoline prices were 30.3 cents a gallon in October1972: William Peter Blatty published The Exorcist1978: President Carter facilitated peace talks between Egypt and Israel1990: Lebanon's 15-year civil war ended1996: Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana divorced 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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