Sidney sheldon short biography
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Sidney Sheldon
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Sidney Sheldon
American writer (1917– 2007)
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Born | Sidney Schechtel (1917-02-11)February 11, 1917 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | January 30, 2007(2007-01-30) (aged 89) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter, television producer |
Alma mater | Northwestern University (did not graduate) |
Period | 1941–2007 |
Genre | Crime fiction, thriller |
Spouse | Jane Kaufman Harding (m. 1945; div. 1946)Jorja Curtright (m. 1951; died 1985)Alexandra Joyce Kostoff (m. 1989) |
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948.[1] He went on to work in television, where over twenty years he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), and Hart to Hart (1979–84).[2] After turning 50, he began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982),
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Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 - January 30, 2007) was an Americanscreenwriter and novelist. He wrote the screenplays for twenty-three motion pictures including Easter Parade and Annie Get Your Gun. He also created four long-running television series. He is also included in the Guinness Book of Records as, "The Most Translated Author".
Novels
[change | change source]His novels include:
- The Naked Face (1970)
- The Other Side of Midnight (1973)
- A Stranger in the Mirror (1976)
- Bloodline (1977)
- Master Of The Game (1983)
- Windmills of the Gods (1987)
- The Sands of Time (1988)
- Memories of Midnight (1990)
- The Doomsday Conspiracy (1991)
- The Stars Shine Down (1992)
- Nothing Lasts Forever (1994)
- Morning, Noon and Night (1995)
- The Best Laid Plans (1997)
- Tell Me Your Dreams (1998)
- The Sky is Falling (2001)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2004)
- If Tomorrow comes
- Rage of the Angels