Brief introduction of sidney sheldon

Sidney Sheldon

Male, born in February 19 17 1 1, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

He died on June 65438+1October 3 1 day, 2007, at the age of 89.

Constellation: Aquarius

[Edit this paragraph] Life experience

Sidney Sheldon (19 17 ~ 2007) was born in an ordinary family in Chicago, USA. After graduating from high school, he entered Northwest University and dropped out of school because of poverty. After that, in order to "leave a mark on his life", he went to new york to write lyrics, and then went to Hollywood to write screenplays. After World War II, he joined the Air Force. A few months later, he retired due to health problems and went to new york to write musicals. From 65438 to 0969, Sheldon, in his fifties, began to try to create novels, "exploring human emotions and behavioral motives". 1970, his novel The Naked Face was published, and the following year he was nominated for the "Slope Award" and won the The New York Times Prize for Best Novel.

From then on, he began to be known. He published a novel every few years for several years, with a total of 18 novels, many of which are bestsellers. He also wrote more than 20 screenplays, 250 TV screenplays and several stage plays, and won Tony Awards and Oscar Awards. His novels have been translated into 565,438+0 languages, covering more than 65,438+080 countries (this record was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records 65,438+0997), and the total sales volume worldwide exceeded 300 million copies. On October 30th, 65438/kloc-0, Sheldon died in Los Angeles.

[Edit this paragraph] A Brief Comment on the Works

Most of his novels are set in the activities of the western upper class. The protagonists in the early works are young, beautiful, smart and strong women, focusing on their experiences in the entertainment circle. After all kinds of tragic experiences, the heroines finally got up the courage to fight to the death with the dark side, exposing all kinds of darkness and evil inside Hollywood in the United States.

Starting from "bloodline", 1978), Sidney Sheldon began to expand his creative field and developed into all levels of society and various roles. If Tomorrow Comes (1985) is regarded as the representative work of Sidney Sheldon's female exposure novels. Most of the later works are dominated by women, with delicate emotional descriptions and full of conflict suspense.

Sidney Sheldon's novels have unparalleled readability. His story is full of ups and downs, twists and turns, suspense, time and space span, many characters and a wide range of fields. After reading it, he had a hearty feeling. The worship of the strong smacks of social Darwinism.

[Edit this paragraph] Immortal legend

He is a legend in American novels. Few people will, like him, resolutely put down all the honors and step into the ranks of novel writers at the age of 52 after winning the Tony Award, Oscar Award and Emmy Award, the highest honors in the three major stages of music and film and television.

No one can start writing at the age of 52 like him, but with the charm of words, his first 65,438+07 novels have all made the bestseller list in The New York Times, translated into 565,438+0 languages and exported to more than 65,438+080 countries, with a sales volume of 300 million copies. Among them, Midnight Love (also translated as The Other Side of Midnight, Midnight Love Picking). English original name: "The Other Side of Midnight" was also shortlisted for 53 weeks in The New York Times bestseller list, setting a record at that time. The masterpiece "If Tomorrow Comes" was paid $65,438+0,000 by CBS before it was finished, and it couldn't wait to buy the movie rights of this book.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, he is the most translated writer in the world, and he is also the only writer who combines Oscar Award, Tony Award and Poe Award.

[Edit this paragraph] Unique writing method

Unlike ordinary writers, Sheldon will not sit in front of a typewriter or a computer and "work hard". His goal is only to write 50 pages a day.

Sheldon sometimes dictated the plot of the novel to his secretary, and sometimes typed it himself. He never rushes to work. As soon as page 50 arrived, he stopped immediately. The next day, he will revise the contents of the previous day and continue to write 50 pages. When he wrote 1200 to 1500, Sheldon began to revise and rewrite it repeatedly.

"I will completely rewrite 12 to 15 times and spend a whole year rewriting." Sheldon said.

In 2004, Sheldon's agent, Mott Janklow, said that Sheldon was so popular because he was a master storyteller. Readers are concerned about the protagonists in Sheldon's novels, mostly threatened women, and Sheldon is good at capturing women's emotions.

It is worth mentioning that women especially like to buy Sheldon's works. In this regard, Sheldon commented: "I like to describe those smart and capable women, but more importantly, these women have not lost their gentleness." Women have great power-their gentleness makes men irresistible. "

[Edit this paragraph] There are many talents

Before writing novels, Sheldon also worked in the fields of music, film and television. He also worked as a director and producer.

Sheldon has written several musicals for Broadway. Among them, with Red Hair, Sheldon won the Tony Award, the highest honor award in the musical. His adaptation of the musical merry widow, his own creation of "Cards" and "Fairy Music Fluttering" were staged on Broadway almost at the same time, which was a great success.

The success of Broadway brought Sheldon back to Hollywood. In addition to writing more than 20 plays, he also became the director and producer of many films. Sheldon won the Oscar for Best Screenplay with 1947 for "The Bachelor" and "Fashion Girl".

Later, with the rise of the television industry, Sheldon chose to jump ship. His TV series "Dreaming of Elves" was broadcast on NBC for five consecutive years from 1965 to 1970, which won him an Emmy Award.

Sheldon said that in the last year of writing Dreaming of Elves, he made up his mind to write a novel. "Every morning from 9 am to noon, I ask my secretary to answer all the calls in the studio. I write every morning-sometimes I read a secretary-and then I started the TV business. " Sheldon said.

[Edit this paragraph] has its own insistence.

Sheldon prides himself on his absolute loyalty to the details of his writing.

Sheldon 1987 said: "If I write about a place, I must have been there; If I wrote about Indonesian food, I must have eaten in that restaurant. I don't want to deceive readers. "In order to write" The Windmill of the Gods ",Sheldon also interviewed Richard Megara Holmes, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and went to Argentina and Romania to live in Kansas, the border city where the hero of the novel lived for a week.

Sheldon said that novel writing is his favorite industry. Regarding the sudden switch to writing novels, Sheldon said that he felt something complicated sprouting in his mind and wanted to further explore human emotions and behavioral motives, which was beyond the scope of movies and TV scripts. He said: "Trying to write (a novel) was my only answer at that time."

Sheldon told reporters: there is a wonderful atmosphere in the novel, and there is freedom in the world of the novel that other media do not have.

[Edit this paragraph] Born in poverty, he worked miracles.

Sheldon thinks that his achievement is probably a miracle.

"My parents are both third-class dropouts," Sheldon said. "My father has never read a book in his life, and I am the only one in the family who finished high school."

After graduating from high school, Sheldon won a scholarship to Northwest University for further study. However, due to the Great Depression, Sheldon had to give up his studies in his freshman year.

A few years later, Sheldon recalled the situation and said, "I looked at those well-dressed students and thought that in a few years, no one would know their existence." I want to leave a mark on my life, and I want people to know that I have been here. "

Sheldon is a dropout who worked as a theater announcer, leather shoes salesman and cloakroom attendant in a nightclub in Chicago. One day, the lead singer of a nightclub band sang a song written by Sheldon, which made him go to new york with the dream of becoming a music lyricist. There, Sheldon watched many movies and came to Hollywood with the idea of writing a script.

However, Sheldon was constantly rejected when he applied for a job in Hollywood. After learning that Hollywood producers hired readers to help analyze scripts, Sheldon tried and got a job opportunity. His weekly salary at that time was only about $20.

Soon after, World War II broke out and Sheldon joined the US Air Force. However, due to health problems, he left the air force a few months after joining the army. After the war, Sheldon began to write musicals in new york, and became famous in the circle. In the next 60 years, Sheldon worked hard and finally wrote a legendary life.

[Edit this paragraph] Life chronology

Sidney Sheldon was born in Chicago, Illinois.

1937 Sheldon came to Hollywood. I got a job as a manuscript reader in Universal Film Company, with a weekly salary of 17 dollars. He also co-wrote many B-rated films with Ben Roberts.

194 1 year, Sheldon served in the air force and participated in World War II as a pilot.

In the same year, he wrote "Betting on Daughters" (screenwriter).

Borrowed Hero (screenwriter)

Mr. District Attorney of Carter Case (screenwriter)

The original English name of South of Panama is South of Panama (screenwriter).

1942 Creation of "Day flies" (screenwriter)

She is in the army (screenwriter)

In the same year, three musicals created by Sheldon, merry widow, Cards and Dancing with the Fairy, were performed on Broadway at the same time. In the mid-1940s, Sheldon returned to Hollywood. As a successful screenwriter, he started a long career at MGM and Paramount Film Company.

1947, he created Bachelor and Fashion Girl, whose original English names were Bachelor and Bobby-Soxer (screenwriter).

In the same year, this work won the script award of "1947 box office highest honor award".

1948 Sheldon's Bachelor and Fashionable Girl won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. "Easter Parade" won the Best Musical Screenplay Award of the American Film and Television Writers Association, and also won the screenplay award of "the highest honor at the box office" this year.

In the same year, he created the original English name of Flowers Blooming and Butterflies Full of Branches: Easter Parade (screenwriter).

1949, he created The Golden Queen, formerly known as Buckley of Broadway.

1950 Creation of Nancy Going to Rio (screenwriter)

Annie Pick Up Your Gun, also translated as Annie Pick Up Your Gun, was originally named Annie Pick Up Your Gun (screenwriter).

195 1 year, Sheldon's "Annie, Pick Up Your Gun" won the Best Musical Screenplay Award of the American Film and Television Writers Association.

In the same year, he created three guys named Mike.

Don't ask questions (screenwriter)

Rich, young and beautiful (screenwriter)

1953 creation remains to be seen (screenwriter)

Dream wife (director, screenwriter)

In 1955, the original English name of "who is who" is "You are never too young" (screenwriter).

1956, he wrote Birds and Bees, the original English name: The Birds and the Bees (screenwriter).

Anything is possible (screenwriter)

The original English name of "Two Fools Catch a Body" is "Pardners" (screenwriter).

1957 created the story of buster keaton (director, screenwriter and producer).

1959 temporarily returned to Broadway. Sheldon won the Tony Award for her collaboration with others in Red Hair.

196 1 year to create a "one-night work" (screenwriter)

1962, he created the Jianghu Woman, formerly known as Jumbo (screenwriter) of Billy Ross.

1964, Sheldon and Screen Essence co-conceived, wrote and produced Dream of the Elves (Note: the translation of this work is unknown. It is suspected that it is the same work as the following Space Fairy Love, that is, "I dreamed of Jenny")

1965 "Fairy Love in Space" was originally named "I Dream of Jeannie" (screenwriter and producer).

1967 Dreaming of Elves was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Achievement.

1970, Sheldon's first novel, Naked Face, was published and won the Allen Poe Award from the American Inferior Writers Association.

From 65438 to 0974, Sheldon's second novel, The Other Side of Midnight, stayed on The New York Times's bestseller list for 53 weeks, setting a record. In the same year, he created Buster and Billy (director).

1975, Sheldon's Strange Man in the Mirror (English original name: A Stranger in the Mirror) was published, and both its hardcover and paperback became bestsellers at that time.

1977, Sheldon's fourth novel, The Murder of Zhumen (translated into Heir and Genesis in English), became a best seller.

In the same year, he created a movie version of Midnight Love, whose original English name was "The Other Side of Midnight" (screenwriter).

1979 hart's creation of hart (screenwriter)

The original English name of the film and television version of bloodline is bloodline (screenwriter).

Rage of Angels (English original name: Rage of Angels) was published on 1980 and immediately topped the best-selling list, lasting for 18 weeks. The continuous listing time is 42 weeks.

Game master, 1982, the sixth novel, made the bestseller list in The New York Times, staying 1 1 week.

1983 "Sidney Sheldon" Day was held in his hometown. The mayor of Chicago declared the celebration ceremony open.

In the same year, the English original name of the film version of Anger of Angels was created: Rage of Angels (screenwriter and producer).

1984 created the movie version of Master Strategy (another translation of the movie version is Master Game), and the original English name was screenwriter.

The original English name of the film version of Naked Face is Naked Face (screenwriter).

1986 another bestseller, the first issue of 1, if you come tomorrow, was published.

In the same year, the English original name of the sequel of Anger of Angels was created: Anger of Angels: The Story Continues (screenwriter and producer).

Use its original English name: If Tomorrow come (screenwriter) to create a movie version of If Tomorrow.

The eighth novel "The Windmill of the Gods" from 65438 to 0987 brought William Morrow Publishing House the largest advance order in the company's history. Two days before its official release, this novel topped the bestseller list.

1988 (English original name: The Sands of Time)' s novel "The Sand of Time" also made the best-seller list in The New York Times before its official release, with the pre-order volume exceeding 1 10,000 copies. In the same year, Sheldon's name was engraved on the Avenue of Stars.

In the same year, he created a film version of "The Windmill of the Gods", whose original English name was: The Windmill of the Gods (screenwriter).

Memories of Midnight 1990, the tenth novel (the sequel to Midnight), created a historical record of 165438+ one million copies for William Morrow Publishing House.

At 199 1, I also dreamed that Jeannie was created as a sequel (screenwriter).

The original English name of the movie version of Memories of Midnight is Memories of Midnight (actor, screenwriter and producer).

1993 Sheldon won the literary prize at the Duval Film Festival in France.

1992 Zvezda sherifa creation (screenwriter)

Film and television version of the Sand of Time (screenwriter and producer)

1993 Creation of the film version of Wonder in the Mirror (screenwriter)

1994, Sidney Sheldon published his 13 novel Nothing in the World (English original name: Nothing is eternal). This dazzling novel makes readers crazy. In the same year, Sheldon was appointed as the national spokesperson for the future library.

In the same year, he wrote Hart to Hart: Home is where Hart is (screenwriter).

1995 Sheldon was awarded the honorary citizen award by the American Library Association and the Los Angeles Public Library.

In the same year, the14th novel "Disaster Begins in Mud" (English original name: Morning, Noon &; Night ")

Hart to Hart's Creation: Two Hart (Screenwriters) in 3/4 Time

And the film and television version of Nothing in the World (screenwriter)

1996 "Hart to Hart: Hart in the Peak Season" (screenwriter)

1997 Sheldon entered the Guinness Book of World Records as "the writer whose works have been translated into the most languages in the world". In the same year, "Perfect" (also known as "The Devil's Game") was published, with the first issue of 6,543.8+0,000 copies, which made it on the best-seller list in The New York Times.

1998, Tell Me Your Dream (also known as The Lost Horizon, formerly known as Tell Me Your Dream in English) was published, and it became the best seller list in The New York Times.

1999 Sidney Sheldon's portrait appeared on the stamps of "Great Writers of the 20th Century", and Sidney Sheldon Day was held in Beverly Hills.

In 2000, he published his sixteenth novel "The Disaster of the Peak" (originally named "The Sky is Falling" in English).

In 2004, the seventeenth novel Are You Afraid of the Dark (English original name: Are You Afraid of the Dark) was published.

In 2005, the last novel Chootad is Falling was published, and the autobiographical novel My Other Side was published.

Sidney Sheldon passed away on June 30th, 2007. His wife Alexandra accompanied him.

[Edit this paragraph] Sidney Sheldon's main novel published in Chinese.

1. Naked Face (1970): Heilongjiang Korean Publishing House 1985 (Naked Face), Writers Publishing House 1988 (Masked Face).

2. The Other Side of Midnight (1974): Gansu People's Publishing House 1985 (Midnight Love), Hainan People's Publishing House 1985 (Fierce Night), Gansu People's Publishing House 1986 (Love and Love).

3. Stranger in the Mirror (1976): Jilin People's Publishing House 1988 (Falling Stars), Heilongjiang People's Publishing House 1988 (Stranger in the Mirror), Baowentang Bookstore 1988 (Mirror).

4. Blood clan (bloodline, 1977): Shaanxi People's Publishing House 1983 (blood clan), Hunan People's Publishing House 1984 (blood clan), Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House 1986 (successor beauty), China Tibetan Studies Publishing House.

5. Anger of Angels (1980): Jiangsu People's Publishing House 1982, Dehong Ethnic Publishing House 1995.

6. Game master (1982): Heilongjiang Korean Publishing House 1985 (strong woman), Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House 1986 (blood diamond), Yellow River Literature and Art Publishing House 1986 (strategy master).

7. If you come tomorrow (1985): Lijiang Publishing House 1986 (if you come tomorrow), Shanghai Culture Publishing House 1986 (Women from Hell), Hainan People's Publishing House 1986 (one day).

8. Windmill of the Gods (1987): Feng Chun Literature and Art Publishing House 1987 (Devil's Web), Heilongjiang Korean Publishing House 1987 (Woman with Special Mission), Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House 1987 (Devil's Web).

9. Sand of Time (1988): Hunan People's Publishing House 1988 (Four Sisters), Law Publishing House 1989 (Evil Escape), Harbin Publishing House 1989 (Sisters in Suffering).

10. Memories of midnight (1990): Yilin Publishing House 199 1 (The Soul of Midnight), Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House 19 1.

1 1. doomsday conspiracy (199 1): China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Company 199 1 (doomsday conspiracy), Yilin Publishing House 1992 (.

12. Star of Destiny (1992): Yilin Publishing House 1994.

13. There is nothing in the world (1994): Yilin Publishing House 1996.

14. Disaster starts with a small wall (1995): Yilin Publishing House 1996.

15. Perfect (1997): Yilin Publishing House 1998.

16. Tell me about your dream (1998). Yilin Press, 2000.

17. Catastrophe (2000, sequel to Perfect): Yilin Publishing House 200 1.

18. Are you afraid of the dark (2004): Yilin Press.