In 1949, when Danielle Steel was just a toddler, Theodor Adorno declared that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” It took her awhile, but Steel has proved Adorno’s point.

A bookkeeper has been sentenced in a San Francisco court to two years and nine months in prison for stealing nearly $800,000 from novelist Danielle Steel. While the majority of U.S. business ...

Set in the 1950s, Steel's account of a family coming to terms with a child's death spent 12 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Mar.) FIVE DAYS IN PARIS Danielle Steel. Dell, $6.50 ISBN 0-44022284-2.

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Vickie also co-wrote The Lives of Danielle Steel (1995) and wrote Dr. Laura: The Unauthorized Biography (1999). Vickie Bane is a former staff writer and freelancer at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2014.