Two People Magazine staff reporters reveal the multimillionaire author's story, from her aristocratic childhood, to her four husbands (including a bank robber) and nine children, to her best-selling novels. National ad/promo. Tour.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Churning out up to three bestselling novels a year, Danielle Steel was, along with Tom Clancy and Stephen King, one of the three highest-grossing American authors of the 1980s. Her success continues unabated despite a resounding lack of critical acclaim. In their gossipy unauthorized bio, People magazine reporters Bane and Benet suggest that Steel's popular story lines stem from the turbulent events of her own life. They uncover two ex-con ex-husbands and other secrets Steel has tried to keep hidden from her public. Their detailed focus on some of the more sensational aspects of her life, e.g., child-custody battles and torrid romances, however, often become tedious. Although Steel's life history is clearly outlined, the writer herself remains a shadowy figure, more the conduit for a series of events than the fully developed protagonist of a good biography. Even so, it's clear Steel's life would make as compelling a TV miniseries as any of her novels have. Author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Bane and Benet, staff writers for People magazine, have done extensive research and conducted many interviews to present an unbiased yet sympathetic account of Steel's rise to literary stardom. Their task was made more difficult by Steel's tendency to color and revise the details of her life to form a particularly romantic image. The authors uncover Steel's unhappy childhood, her several unsuccessful marriages, and the lengthy battle to gain sole custody of her son by her second, drug-addicted, convict husband. Because Steel's life has all the elements of a romance novel in and of itself, this book promises to be good reading. Unfortunately, pedestrian writing, overfrequent use of unnamed sources, and a chronology that sometimes confuses mar this first attempt at a book-length celebrity bio. Still, fans will ask for this, and any collection of contemporary literature should plan to purchase.
--Denise Sticha, Carnegie Lib. of Pittsburgh
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--Denise Sticha, Carnegie Lib. of Pittsburgh
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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