Danielle Steel’s Appeal to Women Readers

Danielle Steel is a ubiquitous figure in the popular literary scene credited with writing over 50 published novels and other non-fiction and children’s books. Several of her novels have been on The New York Times Best Seller List for over 390 consecutive weeks. Dealing with family, children, and usually complex and interesting female protagonists in an array of historical eras and locales, her books are extremely appealing to many women. Her novels have touched on the stresses and life situations that often affect women, including suicide, divorce, illness, war, marriage, birth, and death. Ms. Steel’s personal experience with pain and loss is reflected in her sensitive depiction of these issues. Danielle Steel has managed to combine a career as an author of a truly prodigious body of work with the demands of raising many children, all the while maintaining a guarded private life. An elegant, stylish woman with a fascinating personal history that includes several marriages and a famously devoted mother, Danielle Steel has homes in both Paris and San Francisco.