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Published Nov 2005
384 pages
Genre: Biography/Memoir
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Sidney Sheldon is truly an entertainment legend: Author of over a dozen bestsellers, Academy Award¨-winning screenwriter, and creator of some of television's greatest hits, he has lived a singularly fascinating life. Sheldon has seen and done it all, and now in this candid memoir, he shares his story for the first time--talking about the personalities, highs, and lows that have made his career and life so captivating. From a depression-era childhood in Chicago to an Air Corps stint in WW II to the bright lights and hot parties of New York and Los Angeles, Sidney Sheldon has lived the kind of life most people could never imagine...until now.
'While the book is long on Sheldon's Hollywood and television days, it skimps on his domestic and publishing lives. Still, that shouldn't stop Sheldon's legions of fans from lapping this up.' - PW.
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Sidney Sheldon (Feb 11, 1917 - Jan 30, 2007) is one of the world's handful of top bestselling authors
who have sold more than 250 million books. He is also the only writer to have
won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar, and one of the most translated writers in
the world.
During his long life he enjoyed three careers —a Broadway playwright, a
Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist. Some of his
most famous TV works include I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70) and The
Patty Duke Show (1963-66). In his 50s he turned to novel-writing,
creating bestselling novels such as Master of the Game (1982) and The
Other Side of Midnight (1973). He once declared that despite winning
awards for scriptwriting, it was in writing novels that he had the ...
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