丹妮尔·斯蒂尔

丹妮尔·斯蒂尔（Danielle Steel，1947年8月14日—），是美国小说家，是世界上目前最畅销的作家，销售量超过8亿本。

丹妮尔·斯蒂尔的作品相当一致，包含监狱，诈骗，勒索和自杀。她的书已被翻译成28种语言，22本改编为电视剧，也曾获金球奖提名。

著作

随爱而逝Vanished

珠宝Jewels

誓言The promise

归人Going Home

又见春天To Love Again

聚也偶然

无尽的爱Palomino

有缘走天涯The Ring

万花筒Kaleidoscope

陌路缘A Perfect Stranger

此情可追忆Remembrance

情错Crossings

情奔Palomino

悲欢岁月Thurston House

曾经有一次Once in a Lifetime

情结Changes

圆Full Circle

情缘Family Album

星河秘密Secrets

旅情Wanderlust

情到深处Irresistible Forces

再爱一次To Love Again

最后的女伯爵Zoya

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.

Steel has also published children's fiction and poetry. She created the Nick Traina foundation in honor of her son. It funds mental-illness-related organizations. Her books have been translated into 43 languages, with 22 adapted for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations.

Early life

Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel in New York City to a German father and a Portuguese mother. Her father, John Schuelein-Steel, was a German-Jewish immigrant and a descendant of owners of Löwenbräu beer. Her mother, Norma da Camara Stone dos Reis, was the daughter of a Portuguese diplomat.

She spent much of her childhood in France, where from an early age she was included in her parents' dinner parties. This gave her an opportunity to observe the habits and lives of the wealthy and famous. Her parents divorced when she was eight, and she was raised primarily by her father, rarely seeing her mother. Steel started writing stories as a child, and by her late teens had begun writing poetry. Raised Catholic, she thought of becoming a nun during her early years. 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.

Career

1965–1971: Career beginnings

While still attending New York University, Steel began writing, completing her first manuscript at 19. Steel worked for a public-relations agency in New York called Supergirls. A client, Ladies' Home Journal editor John Mack Carter, encouraged her to focus on writing, having been impressed with her freelance articles. He suggested she write a book, which she did. She later moved to San Francisco and worked as a copywriter for Grey Advertising.

1972–1981: First novels and growing success

Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1973. 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 relationship with her second husband influenced Passion's Promise and Now and Forever, the two novels that launched her career. With the success of her fourth book, The Promise, she became a participant in San Francisco high society.

1981–1996: Fame and expansion to new genres

Beginning in 1991, Steel had become a near-permanent fixture on The New York Times hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists. In 1999, she was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having a book on the New York Times Bestseller List for the most consecutive weeks of any author, 456 at that time. Steele claims her books take 2½ years to complete, and she has developed an ability to juggle up to five projects at once. She researches one book while outlining another. Since her first book was published, every one of her novels has hit bestseller lists in paperback, and each one released in hardback has also been a hardback bestseller.