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Danielle Steel
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American writer
OverviewAI-generated
Danielle Steel is a United States author who began her professional work period in 1978. She has nine children and uses "Danielle Steel" as a pseudonym. Her official website describes her as a bestselling author.
According to Open Library records, she has 773 works, with top titles including *ha-Matanah*, *Teʾomot*, *הפרחח*, *Baraḳ*, and *Felicia's Favourites*. Crossref data lists five works associated with her name. Her birth date is recorded as August 14, 1947, in some sources, while other records list August 14, 1950.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Firecrawl, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- August 14, 1947
- Works
- 773
Top works
- ha-Matanah
- Teʾomot
- הפרחח
- Baraḳ
- Felicia's Favourites
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 238
- Total plays
- 4,360
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Danielle+Steel">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,143x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- Scoping studies: advancing the methodology
· 2010 · cited 12,221x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,172x
via Crossref · CC0
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. As of 2024, she has written 210 books, including over 182 novels.
Based in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. All her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback, despite "a resounding lack of critical acclaim" (Publishers Weekly). Her books often involve rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail, and suicide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Danielle Steel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.