Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel is an American novelist of romance and drama novels. She has sold over 800 million novels during her prolific career, ranking her fourth in the bestselling fiction authors of all time – behind Shakespeare , Agatha Christie and Barbara Cartland. Although Steel has been critiqued for writing “formualic fluff,” she does cover serious issues including suicide, incest, war and the Holocaust. Unlike many authors, Steel does not write sequels or series, but instead sticks to standalone novels to avoid her novels being compared to eachother.
