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Sidney Sheldon
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11 February 1917 - 30 January 2007
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Sidney Sheldon has become synonymous with bestseller. The novels, authored by this American writer, were deliberately doomed to success, were published in huge circulations, films were shot on them, and Sheldon himself even received an Oscar for the original script for the comedy melodrama that was released in 1947. Bachelor and girl . Fame, however, he brought not melodramas, but exciting thrillers, in which he masterfully weaved unexpected plot twists, conspiracies, intrigues and family secrets.
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Sidney Sheldon has become synonymous with bestseller. The novels, authored by this American writer, were deliberately doomed to success, were published in huge circulations, films were shot on them, and Sheldon himself even received an Oscar for the original script for the comedy melodrama that was released in 1947.
Bachelor and girl .
Fame, however, he brought not melodramas, but exciting thrillers, in which he masterfully weaved unexpected plot twists, conspiracies, intrigues and family secrets. Real fame overtook Sidney Sheldon only after fifty years - in 1970, his debut novel "Breaking the Mask", which earned him the Edgar Poe Prize.
The future author was born in 1917 on February 11 in a family of Jews of Russian origin who emigrated to Chicago from a town near Odessa, and his name was Sidney Shechtel. At the age of 10, he earned his first $5 by publishing poetry, but his real career began in 1937, when the talented young writer began writing scripts for Paramount and MGM studios and B films. It was a school that, along with writing musicals for Broadway theaters, helped him gain the necessary experience, which was useful later in writing books.
In the early 1960s, Sheldon also began to collaborate with television, writing scripts for numerous TV series, including the popular fantasy sitcom I Dream of Jeannie and the detective series The Hart Spouses.
After the success of his second novel, The Reverse Side of Midnight, which reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list for 52 weeks in 1973, Sidney Sheldon became a literary star. “Mr. Blockbuster” called the novelist all the same The New York Times three years before his death – Sheldon died on January 30, 2007. Most of his books are about women and for women, the intelligent, talented, capable, those who know how to preserve their femininity, which those who rule this world cannot resist - men.
He wrote 18 novels that have been published in more than 300 million copies and translated into many languages, and his works are still firmly among the best-selling books of the romantic thriller genre.