About Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel was born on August 14, 1947 in New York City to John and Norma Steel. Her family was wealthy; her ancestors on her father’s side founded Lowenbrau beer and her mother’s father was a Portuguese diplomat. She spent her childhood in France, as her parents often went to posh dinner parties given by the elite class. This gave Danielle the chance to study the culture of the aristocrat. When Danielle was seven, her parents became separated and she moved to New York to live with her father while her mother remained in Europe.
The inclination that Danielle Steel had toward writing started out early. She often wrote short stories when she was young, and then she started writing poetry when she became a teenager. She studied both literature design and fashion design at New York University and Parson School of Design during the time span from 1963 to 1967. As well as the curriculum that she had, she also became homemaker when she married Claude-Eric Lazard when she was eighteen in 1965.
When she was 19, Danielle Steel finished her first manuscript while she was adjusting to both college and married life. Danielle Steel worked for an advertising agency as a copywriter, and then worked for a public relations agency which was based in San Francisco after she gave birth to Beatrix in 1968. After nine years of marriage and just before she finished her first novel, her marriage ended. Going Home, her first novel, included a lot of things that she would become notable for, such as being based around issues with family.
After her first marriage ended, Danielle Steel married three more times; to Danny Zugelder, William Toth and John Traina. Her first two marriages did not last long at all, the second lasting two years and the divorce from Zugelder prompted her to write Passion’s Promise, which contained some of the same elements as her marriage to Zugelder.
Her fourth marriage to John Traina lasted longer than the others. John Traina adopted the two sons that she’d had and they had five children together – Samantha, Victoria, Zera, Maxx, and Vanessa.
The breakup with John came due to the fact that a group of revelations came to the surface in her biography, which claimed that Nicholas was adopted and not fathered by John Traina. Danielle Steel tried to prevent the publication of the book but wasn’t successful.
More than twenty of her books have been made into television movies and are enjoyed on the screen as well as in print. One of the most interesting things about her is that she made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for being on the New York Times bestseller list for 381 weeks straight.
The books by Danielle Steel are enjoyed around the world and are enjoyed by women of all ages. They all have some conflict in them that women can find that they can relate to and identify with.
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