LITERATURE FIGURE: DANiELLE STEELE

DANIELLE STEEL

Born: August 14th 1947

Birthplace: New York, New York

Danielle Steel was the only child of John and Norma Shuelein-Steel. During her childhood her parents got divorced when she was around seven or eight years old. Apparently her parents didn't want to take care of her and she was raised by many of her relatives and servants in Paris and New York. She graduated from school a little before she was fifteen years old, and in 1963 ahe was enrolled in New York's Parsons School of Design. Her dream was to become the "new chanel", but had to basically give up on it due to an illness of ulcers. She then enrolled at New York University, where she studied until 1967. After, when she was eighteen years old she married her first husband. After being married with her husband she became bored with her jet-setting lifestyle, and she was against her husband's wishes so she decided to find a job. Soon she was hired as a vice president of public relation and new business for Supergirls, which was a Manhattan public relations and advertising agency. Her job seem to look weak for the future so she decided to write stories. She wrote her first book (Going Home) and published it in 1973, when she was living in San Francisco. from there she started writing many more novels. Around 1977 she started also writing advertisemnts and poems about love and motherhood which appeared in Women's section of magazines. Soon after she married her second husband and this time they had alot more in common. Throughout the years up to the present she was successful in many of the novels she wrote, and although she as a lot of money, she lives a quiet life.

• Fun Facts:

-Best Known As: Author of the romance novels Jewels and Crossings

- in th bestseller list since 1980's

• Books written in 1980's:

-The Ring (1980)

-Changes (1983)

-Full Circle (1984)

-Secrets (1985)

-Family Album (1985)

-Wanderlust (1986)

-Fine Things (1987)

-Kaleidoscope (1987)

-Zoya (1988)

-Daddy (1989)

-Star (1989)