Her relationship with her second husband influenced Passion's Promise and Now and Forever, the two novels that launched her career. The novel contained many of the themes that her writing would become well known for, including a focus on family issues and human relationships. Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1973. She later moved to San Francisco and worked as a copywriter for Grey Advertising.ġ972–1981: First novels and growing success He suggested she write a book, which she did. A client, Ladies' Home Journal editor John Mack Carter, encouraged her to focus on writing, having been impressed with her freelance articles. Steel worked for a public-relations agency in New York called Supergirls. While still attending New York University, Steel began writing, completing her first manuscript at 19. A 1965 graduate of the Lycée Français de New York, she studied literature design and fashion design, first at Parsons School of Design and then at New York University.

Raised Catholic, she thought of becoming a nun during her early years. Steel started writing stories as a child, and by her late teens had begun writing poetry. Her parents divorced when she was eight, and she was raised primarily by her father, rarely seeing her mother. She spent much of her childhood in France, where from an early age she was included in her parents' dinner parties, giving her an opportunity to observe the habits and lives of the wealthy and famous. Her mother, Norma da Camara Stone dos Reis, was the daughter of a Portuguese diplomat. Her father, John Schuelein-Steel, was a German-Jewish immigrant and a descendant of owners of Löwenbräu beer. Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel in New York City to a German father and a Portuguese mother. Her books have been translated into 43 languages, with 22 adapted for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations. Steel has also published children's fiction and poetry, as well as creating a foundation that funds mental illness related organizations. Her books often involve rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail and suicide.

All of her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback, despite 'a resounding lack of critical acclaim' ( Publishers Weekly). As of 2021, she has written 190 books, including over 140 novels.īased in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. She is the bestselling living author and one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.

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