Sidney Sheldon’s Death – Cause and Date

The novelist Sidney Sheldon died at the age of 89. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American television writer who created such popular TV series as I Dream of Jeannie, The Patty Duke Show, and Hart to Hart. Also a bestselling novelist, he published Rage of Angels, Master of the Game, and The Other Side of Midnight during the 1970s and ’80s.

He divorced his first wife, Jane Kaufman Harding, after three years of marriage. He remained married, however, to second wife Jorja Curtright from 1951 until her death in 1985. Finally, Alexandra Kostoff was Sheldon’s wife from 1989 until his death at age eighty-nine. He had a daughter named Mary.

The cause was complications of pneumonia, his publicist, Warren Cowan, said yesterday. The elder statesman of commercial fiction, Mr. Sheldon wrote more than two dozen novels, which for the last three and half decades have been mainstays of airports, drugstores and bedside tables around the globe.

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The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

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The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn’t realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.

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My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place – police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

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The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I’ve known in my life.

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Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.