Danielle Steel is a prolific author with over 70 bestselling romance novels translated into 25 languages and read in 45 countries. Her books tackle modern family issues and have been adapted into films and miniseries. She also founded the Nick Traina Foundation to help families affected by bipolar disorder. Steel is a mother of nine and enjoys collecting art.
Danielle Steel is one of the most prolific bestselling authors in the world. Her books are distributed and read in more than 25 languages in over 45 countries. Danielle Steel has written at least 70 bestselling romance novels.
Danielle Steel’s books are not romantic nonsense. She taps into the issues and realities of modern family life and she manages to both entertain readers and make them relate to the topics as something they may have experienced themselves or something that feels true to modern times. For example, Danielle Steel’s novels are likely to contain storylines about cancer, mental illness, and loss, as well as a more standard romance involving love, marriage, and relationships.
More than twenty of his best sellers have been made into films or miniseries for television. Jewels, is a book by Danielle Steel that was made into a four-hour miniseries in 1992. It received two Golden Globe nominations. In Danielle Steel’s Jewels, an American woman in England, played by Annette O’Toole, marries the Duke of Winfield, played by Anthony Andrews.
In Fine Things, Danielle Steels writes about breakups, choices, illnesses, and child custody struggles. Tracy Pollan and DW Moffat starred in the 1990 television film of the same title. Danielle Steel’s best-selling novel Daddy was made into a television movie in 1991 and starred Patrick Duffy and Lynda Carter. Daddy, is the story of a mother who abandons her child and leaves her husband to raise the child. The father is an advertising professional and meets a new love interest, an actress, while caring for his baby on the set of a TV commercial.
In addition to writing romance best sellers, Danielle Steel has also written a book about the life story of her son, Nick Traina, in His Bright Light: The Life of Nick Traina. Nick had a successful punk rock band, but committed suicide at nineteen. He suffered from bipolar disorder and was a heroin addict. Danielle Steel founded the Nick Traina Foundation in 1998 to help fund research and help families affected by bipolar disorder or manic depression.
Danielle Steel is involved in other charities that help the homeless and children. She is a mother of nine children and she loves collecting art. Before becoming a writer, Danielle Steel worked in advertising and public relations, as well as teaching. Danielle Steel said that she likes to work on up to five books at once and that each of her books can take up to three years to complete.
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