If you’re a frequent visitor to most public libraries in North America (which you should be), you’ve probably noticed a handful of authors who always seem to permeate the selection of new arrivals. James Patterson, Nora Roberts, and even Freida McFadden have come to occupy such shelf space as authors who publish multiple novels in a calendar year. But any such list of writers would be incomplete without including the highest-selling living author: Danielle Steel. Per her own website, Steel has sold over one billion copies of her books worldwide, and she’s been doing it longer than almost anyone.
Where other authors who have come to publish multiple books in a single year often became authors as a second career, Steel started as a writer from the beginning. While still a student at New York University (NYU), she completed her first novel at 19. But she’d started writing much earlier than that. Steel had something of an opulent childhood. She was born in New York City in 1947 to a Portuguese American mother and German father, and the family spent many years living in France, attending lavish dinner parties.
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