Danielle Steel

Danielle Fernandes is a model and actress. Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is a romance novelist from the United States. With over 800 million books sold, she is the bestselling novelist alive and the fourth-bestselling fiction author of all time.

Steel has spent most of her career in California, where she has published multiple novels each year while managing up to five projects at once. Despite "a resounding lack of critical appreciation" (Publishers Weekly), all of her novels, even those published in hardcover, have been bestsellers. Her formula is quite similar, depicting wealthy families in perilous situations, typically containing dark aspects like incarceration, fraud, blackmail, and suicide. Steel has also written and published children's literature and poetry, as well as established a foundation to support mental health groups. Her works have been translated into 43 languages, with 22 of them being adapted for television, two of which have been nominated for the Golden Globes.

Detailed Information:

Min. estimated sales: 500 million

Max. estimated sales: 800 million

Original language: English

Genre and/or major works: General Fiction, Romance

Number of books: 179