When was sidney sheldon born

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You don't describe your leading man in detail because if you write that he is tall, lanky and laconic and Clint Eastwood turns you down and you give the script to Dustin Hoffman, you're in big trouble. So you merely characterize him as handsome or elderly or whatever the story calls for. You don't describe the rooms in details because the best set decorators in Hollywood are going to do those rooms. The advantage of writing a motion picture is that the studio can afford to get you the Mary Higgins Clark.

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By the early s he had made his way into screenwriting. During the mids and afterward, Mr. Sheldon also had success in the theater. Sheldon turned to fiction only in his 50s, after having an idea for a thriller he felt was too psychologically nuanced for film, TV or the stage. After an impulsive early marriage that ended in divorce, Mr.

Sheldon married Jorja Curtright in ; she died in In he married Alexandra Kostoff. He passed away January 30th, due to complications when he contracted pneumonia. He died after being submitted to the Eisenhower Medical Center, only 12 days before his 90th birthday.

Still extremely popular today, Sheldon's work includes 18 novels, which have, in total, sold over three hundred million copies worldwide alongside; television scripts, 25 major film releases along with 6 Broadway productions. The majority of his books featured female lead roles, each of which displayed strong acts of femininity, resulting in the majority of his readers being women.

Due to the attitude of the era towards equality and women, Sheldon had few positive highbrow critics, yet he continued to promote himself and his work regardless. Sheldon suffered from a severe bipolar disorder and manic depression throughout his lifetime, notable from a young age.

At the age of 17, he was discovered by his father contemplating suicide, drunk on whiskey with several bottles of sleeping pills in his possession.

The sleeping pills were obtained through theft whilst working in his drug store clerk position. There is a detailed account of this event that can be found in his autobiography, The Other Side of Me