Sidney Sheldon dies aged 89 · 2007-01-31 13:01
The best-selling American novelist, playwright and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon has died aged 89.
He died of complications from pneumonia at hospital near Palm Springs, California, the BBC informed. His wife, Alexandra, and his daughter, author Mary Sheldon, were by his side.
He won awards in three careers ??” Broadway theater, movies, television ??” then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels.
He said he wrote his books so that readers would want to continue to turn the page.
“My books are adventurous and exciting enough so that men want to read them and I hope I have enough insights into women so that women enjoy reading the books,” he said in a BBC interview.
Warren Cowan, his publicist of more than 25 years said: “I’ve lost a longtime and dear friend. In all my years in this business, I’ve never heard an unkind word said about him.”
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