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Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer who won awards in three careers—a Broadway playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70), Hart to Hart (1979-84), and The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), but it was not until after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980) that he became most famous. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x621, 166 KB)Image of author Sidney Sheldon File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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The Naked Face is the first book written by popular novelist, Sidney Sheldon. ...
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Life and career Sheldon was born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago, Illinois, to Otto Schechtel, a German Jewish father, and Natalie Marcus, a Russian Jewish mother. At 10, he made his first sale, $10 for a poem.[1] During the Depression, he worked at a variety of jobs, attended Northwestern University and contributed short plays to drama groups.[1] Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 606. ...
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In 1937 he moved to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts and collaborated on a number of B movies.[2] After serving in the military during World War II as a pilot in the War Training Service, a branch of the Army Air Corps,[2] Sheldon returned to civilian life and moved to New York where he began writing musicals for the Broadway stage while continuing to write screenplays for both MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures. He earned a reputation as a prolific writer; for example, at one time he had three musicals on Broadway: a rewritten The Merry Widow, Jackpot, and Dream with Music.[1] His success on Broadway brought him back to Hollywood where his first assignment was The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay of 1947. Hollywood redirects here. ...
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When television became the new hot medium, he decided to try his hand in it. "I suppose I needed money," he remembered. "I met Patty Duke one day at lunch. So I produced The Patty Duke Show, and I did something nobody else in TV ever did. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the series."[1] He also wrote for the series Hart to Hart and Nancy. Most famously he wrote the series I Dream of Jeannie, which he also created and produced, which lasted for five seasons from 1965-1970. It was "During the last year of I Dream of Jeannie, I decided to try a novel," he said in 1982. "Each morning from 9 until noon, I had a secretary at the studio take all calls. I mean every single call. I wrote each morning — or rather, dictated — and then I faced the TV business."[1] Patty Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress of the stage and screen. ...
In 1969, Sheldon wrote his first novel, The Naked Face, which earned him a nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best First Novel. His next novel, The Other Side of Midnight, went to #1 on The New York Times bestseller list as did several ensuing novels, a number of which were also made into motion pictures or TV miniseries. The Edgar Allen Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ...
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His novels often featured determined women who persevere in a tough world run by hostile men.[1] The novels contained a lot of suspense and devices to keep the reader turning the page:[1]
"I try to write my books so the reader can't put them down," he explained in a 1982 interview. "I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of a chapter, he or she has to read just one more chapter. It's the technique of the old Saturday afternoon serial: leave the guy hanging on the edge of the cliff at the end of the chapter." Most of his readers were women.[1] Asked why this was the case he said: "I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it."[1] Books were Sheldon's favorite medium. "I love writing books," he commented. "Movies are a collaborative medium, and everyone is second-guessing you. When you do a novel you're on your own. It's a freedom that doesn't exist in any other medium."[1]
Sheldon was married for 30 years to Jorja Curtright Sheldon, a stage and film actress who later became an accomplished and well known interior designer, but died of a heart attack in 1985. He then married Alexandra Kostoff, a former child actress and advertising executive of Macedonian origin 4, in Las Vegas in 1989.
He struggled with bipolar disorder for years; he contemplated suicide at 17 (talked out of it by his father who discovered him), as detailed in his autobiography published in 2005, The Other Side of Me For other uses, see Bipolar. ...
The Other Side Of Me is the autobiographical memoirs about the life of Sidney Sheldon. ...
Sheldon died from complications arising from pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California at age 89.[2][3] Complication, in medicine, is a unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. ...
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Awards Over the years, Sheldon wrote for television, film, and stage, winning an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay (1947) for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, a Tony Award (1959) for his musical Redhead, and an Emmy Award for his work on I Dream of Jeannie, an NBC sitcom. // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ...
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Bibliography
Novels The Naked Face is the first book written by popular novelist, Sidney Sheldon. ...
The Other Side of Midnight is a 1973 novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
A Stranger in the Mirror is a 1976 novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
Bloodline is a 1977 novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
Rage of Angels is a novel written by acclaimed writer, Sidney Sheldon. ...
Master of the Game is a novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
If Tomorrow Comes is a 1985 novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
Windmills of the Gods is a novel by American thriller writer Sidney Sheldon. ...
The Sands of Time is a 1988 fiction by acclaimed novelist, Sidney Sheldon. ...
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The Stars Shine Down is a novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1994 novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
Morning, Noon and Night is a 1995 novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
The Best Laid Plans is a 1997 novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
Tell Me Your Dreams is a 1998 novel by the American writer Sidney Sheldon. ...
The Sky is Falling is a 2001 novel by Sidney Sheldon. ...
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (ISBN 0060559349) is a 2004 novel by bestselling thriller writer Sidney Sheldon. ...
Autobiography The Other Side Of Me is the autobiographical memoirs about the life of Sidney Sheldon. ...
See also This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States, as determined by Publishers Weekly. ...
References - ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Author Sidney Sheldon dies at 89", Associated Press, 30 January 2007. Archive copy.
- ^ a b c Sidney Sheldon's biography
- ^ "Sidney Sheldon, Author of Steamy Novels, Dies at 99" The New York Times, 31 January 2007.
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