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Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American
writer and producer. He came to prominence in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays
and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy
Award. He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year
period during which he created The Patty Duke Show(1963–66), I
Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84).
He became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling
romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The
Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980).
He is the seventh best-selling fiction writer of all time.
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