reviews_and_ramblings | Romance History: Danielle Steel

Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel was born in August 1948, in New York, The daughter of a German nobleman, John Schulein Steel, her family tree includes the Lowenbrau beer barons on her father's side, and a Porluguese diplomatic family on her mother's side, Norma da Câmara Stone Reis.

She wrote her first novel in the very early 1970s called Going Home, which Pocket Books published. Five books and no contracts later, Danielle was on the verge of joining the Protestant ministry when her seventh book Passion's Promise, sold to Dell. The rest, proverbially, is history.

It has been said that DanieIIe Steel's own life resembles the lives of the women in her novels. The same elements are certainly there; an international background (she is fluent in four languages, and French is her native tongue), opulent surroundings, beautiful clothes, antique cars, and a hint of mystery about her personal life. In 1965, when she was only 18, Steel married banker Claude-Eric Lazard. After nine years of marriage, Steel's relationship with Lazard ended. Steel married again, enjoying a jailhouse ceremony with Danny Zugelder. The marriage ended quickly and Zugelder was later convicted of a series of rapes. Steel married her third husband, heroin-addicted William Toth, the day after her divorce from Zugelder was final. This marriage ended within two years. Still optimistic about finding love, Steel married for the fourth time in 1981, to vintner John Traina. Steel married for a fifth time, to Silicon Valley financier Tom Perkins, but the marriage lasted less than two years, ending in 1999.

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