Raised in New York and France, Danielle Steel was the daughter of a German-born businessman and a Portuguese diplomat's daughter. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she attended the Lycée Français de New York before going on to New York University. She married early and started a family while working brief stints in advertising and public relations, writing fiction in whatever time she could find.
Steel's first novel, Going Home, was published in 1973. Early bestsellers such as Now and Forever, The Promise, and The Ring established her signature style: emotionally charged stories about women navigating love, family upheaval, and loss. Titles including Kaleidoscope, Zoya, Fine Things, and Message from Nam widened her readership through the 1980s and 1990s.
Her output is famously prolific. She has published more than 180 books, a mix of novels and nonfiction, and her work has sold more than 800 million copies and been translated into dozens of languages. Several novels were adapted into television films, particularly during the 1990s. Steel has also written His Bright Light (1998), a memoir about her son Nick Traina's bipolar disorder and death, and A Gift of Hope (2012), about her work with homeless people in San Francisco.
Steel has been married five times and has nine children. The death of her son Nick in 1997 at age 19 was a profound personal event that she addressed publicly in His Bright Light. Her disciplined routine - sometimes working on several manuscripts at once - has sustained a career spanning more than five decades, and her novels remain staples of popular fiction in the United States and abroad.
Danielle Steel was born on August 14, 1947 in New York City, New York, United States. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), August 14, 1947 corresponds to the Queen of Clubs, making the Queen of Clubs her Birth Card.
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