Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning American writer who was born on February 11, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois. After 20 years of TV work, he began writing his bestselling novels, such as The Rage of Angels, Master of the Game, and others. He is ranked as the world's eighth best-selling fiction author. Sheldon was a Broadway stage musical writer who also worked as a screenwriter for MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures. He gained renown as a prolific writer after being assigned to write for two Hollywood films, The Bachelor and Bobby-Soxer. In 1947, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for this work.

Sidney Sheldon developed, scripted, and produced the "I Dream of Jeannie" television series, which was a hit at the time. After that, he became more interested in writing novels, and his first, The Naked Face, got him a nomination for the Edgar Allen Poe Award in the area of "best first novel". Most of his books, including his second novel, "The Other Side of Midnight" reached number one on the New York Times Bestseller list. Some of them have even been adapted into movies. He wrote 18 novels, all of them in the same genre: crime and suspense with a female protagonist and his works have sold over 300 million copies worldwide.

Born: February 11, 1917
Died: January 30, 2007 (aged 89)
Nationality: American
Best Works: Tell Me Your Dreams, If Tomorrow Comes, Master of the Game, Nothing Lasts Forever, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, A Stranger in the Mirror,…