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西德尼·谢尔顿(1917~2007),生于美国芝加哥平民家庭,高中毕业后入西北大学,后因贫困辍学。此后,为“留下人生的印记”,他曾去纽约写过歌词,又去好莱坞写过电影剧本。1970年,他的长篇处女作《裸脸》问世,次年获得埃伦坡奖提名和《纽约时报》最佳小说奖。谢尔顿一生创作小说共计十八部,其中许多作品名列畅销书榜首。他还创作过二十多部电影剧本、二百五十部电视剧本和几部舞台剧,曾获托尼奖和奥斯卡奖。他的小说曾被译成五十一种文字,遍布一百八十多个国家,全球总销量逾三亿册。2007年1月30日,谢尔顿在洛杉矶病逝。
Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007), born in Chicago, USA, civilian family, after graduating from high school into Northwestern University, after dropping out of school because of poverty. Since then, he has written lyrics to New York and went to Hollywood to write screenplays for “the mark of life.” In 1970, his long debut “Bare Faces” came out, the following year won the Ellen Poe Award nomination and “New York Times” best novel award. Sheldon creative novel a total of eighteen, many of which works bestseller list. He has also authored more than two dozen screenplays, two hundred fifty television scripts, and several stage plays, and won both Tony and Oscars. His novels have been translated into 51 languages, covering more than 180 countries, with more than 300 million books sold worldwide. January 30, 2007, Shelton died in Los Angeles.