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Danielle Steel

1947 - Today

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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 one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Danielle Steel has received more than 3,273,530 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Danielle Steel is the 1,302nd most popular writer (down from 1,155th in 2019), the 1,555th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,411th in 2019) and the 143rd most popular American Writer.

Danielle Steel is most famous for her many romance novels.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Daddy
Fiction, Literature, Fathers
1989
Malice
Literature, Sexual abuse victims, Open Library Staff Picks
The compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruellest kind of malice.At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal, Grace will not tell the truth about the attack. She is beautiful enough for men to want her, but after a lifetime of being a victim, now she must pay the price for other people's sins.From the depths of an Illinois women's prison to a Chicago modelling agency, and from there to a challenging career in New York, Grace carries the past with her wherever she goes. In healing her own pain, she reaches out to battered women and children who live a nightmare she knows only too well. When Grace meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has found a man who wants nothing from her - except to heal her, to hear her secrets, and to give her the family she so desperately wants. But with happiness finally within her grasp, Grace is at her most vulnerable - in danger of losing everything to an enemy from her past, an enemy bent on malice.Danielle Steel has written an extraordinary women's story with rare insight and power. Portraying the struggle to triumph over malice and betrayal, she transforms a life of pain into a blessing for others. Revealing both the stark reality of domestic abuse and the healing power of love, Malice is more than powerful fiction. It is a piece of life.
1996
Tsubasa/ Japanese Translation of Wings
Adventure stories, American fiction, Fiction
Wings is the story of a young woman who fights all the odds to fulfil her dreams.From her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, Cassie O'Malley would look at the planes shimmering in the moonlight and feel the pull of taking to the skies. Her First World War veteran father Pat wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless red-haired daughter. But her father's partner Nick, fellow air ace and airborne daredevil, was willing to break all the rules and teach her to fly.When Cassie is invited to California to become a test pilot, her record-breaking flights soon make her a media darling. Risking her life, pushing herself to her limits, in a world preparing for the Second World War, she decides to chart her own course and pursue her own destiny, whatever it might cost her.
1920
Now and forever
Fiction in English, Fiction, Authors
1974
Zoya
Fiction, Nobility, Love stories
Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and World War I Europe, Zoya, young cousin to the Tsar, flees St. Petersburg to Paris to find safety. Her entire world forever changed, she faces hard times and joins the Ballet Russe in Paris. And then, when life is kind to her, Zoya moves on to a new and glittering life in New York. The days of ease are all too brief as the Depression strikes, and she loses everything yet again. It is her career, and the man she meets in the course of it, which ultimately save her, as she rebuilds her life through the war years and beyond. And it is her family that comes to mean everything to her. From the roaring twenties to the 1980's, Zoya remains a rare and spirited woman whose legacy will live on.From the Paperback edition.
1988
Accident
Fiction, Traffic accidents, Teenagers
A tragic accident which critically injures her beautiful daughter changes the lives of Page Clarke's family forever.
1994

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Danielle Steel ranks 1,302 out of 7,302. Before her are P. G. Wodehouse, Javier Marías, A. E. van Vogt, John Tzetzes, Neil Gaiman, and Aelius Aristides. After her are Maurice Barrès, Michel Verne, Eleanor H. Porter, Alfonsina Storni, Ken Kesey, and Widukind of Corvey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Danielle Steel ranks 91. Before her are Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Roger D. Kornberg, James Patterson, F. R. David, Richard Jenkins, and Gerhard Ludwig Müller. After her are Aleksandr Viktorenko, Lucas Papademos, Barbara Bach, Jeffrey DeMunn, Edu Coimbra, and Edward James Olmos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Danielle Steel ranks 1,555 out of 20,380. Before her are Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Ed White (1930), Helen Hunt (1963), Art Blakey (1919), Frank Langella (1938), and Thomas A. Steitz (1940). After her are Michael Dudikoff (1954), Jordan Belfort (1962), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Chris Cooper (1951), Burt Bacharach (1928), and Ken Kesey (1935).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Danielle Steel ranks 143. Before her are Irving Stone (1903), Clive Cussler (1931), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Robert Sheckley (1928), James Brendan Connolly (1868), and Poul Anderson (1926). After her are Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Ken Kesey (1935), Hunter S. Thompson (1937), Anthony Bourdain (1956), Maria Shriver (1955), and Jean M. Auel (1936).

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