Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon won an Academy Award in 1948 for the screenplay of The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, then spent two decades creating television series — The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart — before turning to fiction after he turned fifty. His romantic suspense novels, among them Master of the Game and Rage of Angels, sold more than 300 million copies in 51 languages.