By Barry Wayne Veinotte

Name: Sidney Sheldon Date of Birth: February 11, 1917 Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois Father: Otto Sheldon Mother: Natalie (Marcus) Sheldon Wife: Jorja Curtright (died, 1985) Children: Mary Sheldon Dastin Career: Writer. Former script reader for Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox Studios; creator, producer, and writer of television shows, Los Angeles, CA, 1963--, including The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie, Nancy, and Hart to Hart Military Career: U.S. Army Air Forces, 1941

Sidney Sheldon began his tremendous career writing award winning works for television, film and the stage during the middle of the twentieth century. Well know for shows such as "I Dream of Jeannie", and "Hart to Hart," Sheldon went on to focus on novels, many of which became instant bestsellers. "Bloodline", (1977) and "Windmill of the Gods" (1987), among others, went on to become television miniseries. He once admitted "[Novels] never occurred to me," and yet he is now considered the best-selling novelist in the world, with his books in print in some thirty-nine countries, and was a recipient of a star on the prestigious Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Sidney Sheldon was born February 11th, 1917, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Northwestern University briefly during the mid-1930s, but didn't continue to peruse this avenue. He was in the U.S. Army Air Forces, and was discharged in 1941, at which time he collaborated with Ben Roberts on his first screenplays and Broadway productions. He won an Academy Award for best original screenplay in 1948 for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), then went on to write a list of screenplays which includes Easter Parade (1948), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and Jumbo (1962). It seems his early success knew no restrictions, as he also won a Tony Award in 1959 for the Broadway Musical "Redhead".

In 1963 Sheldon began to create, produce, and write television series, for which he gain incredible popularity. The Patty Duke show (1963 - 1966) and I Dream of Jeannie (1967-1970) which received several Emmy Nominations. The Naked Face (1970) was Sheldon's first novel, and was awarded the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best first mystery novel. This began a consistent stream of novels, which brought him the bestsellers list an extraordinary number of times, and included recently "The Stars Shine Down" (1992) and "Nothing Lasts Forever" (1994).

• Academy Award ("Oscar") for best original screenplay, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1948, for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer; Screen Writers' Guild Award for best musical of the year, 1948, for Easter Parade, and 1950, for Annie Get Your Gun; Antoinette Perry Award ("Tony"), 1959, for book of Redhead; Emmy Awards for I Dream of Jeannie; Edgar Award for best first mystery novel, Mystery Writers of America, and New York Times citation for best first mystery novel, both 1970, both for The Naked Face; recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• A Guinness Record Setter
• Sheldon was also honored by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most translated author in the world; his publisher estimates that there are more than 275 million copies of his books in print worldwide.

NOVELS

The Naked Face, Morrow, 1970.
The Other Side of Midnight, Morrow, 1974.
A Stranger in the Mirror, Morrow, 1976.
Bloodline, Morrow, 1977.
Rage of Angels, Morrow, 1980.
Master of the Game, Morrow, 1982.
If Tomorrow Comes, Morrow, 1985.
Windmills of the Gods, Morrow, 1987.
The Sands of Time, Morrow, 1988.
Sheldon Boxed Set: Bloodline, A Stranger in the Mirror, Rage of Angels, Warner Books, 1988.
Memories of Midnight, Morrow, 1990.
The Doomsday Conspiracy , Morrow, 1991.
The Stars Shine Down, Morrow, 1992.
Sidney Sheldon: Three Complete Novels, Random House, 1992.
Nothing Lasts Forever: The New Novel, Morrow, 1994.
Morning, Noon, & Night, Morrow, 1995.

PLAYS:

The Merry Widow (operetta), first produced on Broadway, August 4, 1943.
Jackpot, first produced on Broadway, January 13, 1944.
Dream with Music, first produced on Broadway, May 18, 1944.
Alice in Arms, first produced on Broadway, January 31, 1945.
Redhead (musical), first produced on Broadway, February 5, 1959.
Roman Candle, first produced on Broadway, February 3, 1960.
Also author of Gomes, produced in London.

SCREENPLAYS:

Borrowed Hero 1941.
Dangerous Lady 1941.
Gambling Daughters 1941.
South of Panama, 1941.
Fly by Night, 1942.
She's in the Army 1942.
The Carter Case 1947.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1947.
Easter Parade (musical) 1948.
Annie Get Your Gun (adapted from the musical by Irving Berlin), 1950.
Nancy Goes to Rio 1950.
Rich, Young, and Pretty (musical) 1951.
No Questions Asked 1951.
Three Guys Named Mike 1951.
Just This Once 1952.
Dream Wife 1953.
Remains to Be Seen, 1953.
You're Never Too Young, 1955.
Anything Goes (adapted from the musical by Cole Porter) 1956.
Pardners 1956.
The Buster Keaton Story 1957.
All in a Night's Work 1961.
Billy Rose's Jumbo (also titled Jumbo) 1962.
The Birds and the Bees 1965.

OTHER:

Also author of a children's book, published in Japan. Author of more than 250 scripts, occasionally under a pseudonym, for The Patty Duke Show, 1963-66, and I Dream of Jeannie, 1965-70.

The Other Side of Midnight was made into a film by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1977; Bloodline was filmed by Paramount in 1979, and was re-edited by Sheldon and shown as an ABC miniseries in 1982; Rage of Angels, for which Sheldon served as executive producer, became an NBC miniseries in 1983, and inspired a 1986 sequel which Sheldon also produced; CBS broadcast miniseries adaptations of Master of the Game in 1984, If Tomorrow Comes in 1986, and Windmills of the Gods in 1988; The Naked Face was filmed by Cannon in 1985; The Sands of Time has been optioned.