<Tr> <Th> Spouse </Th> <Td> Jane Kaufman Harding (1945--1948; divorced) Jorja Curtright (1951--1985; her death; 1 child) Alexandra Joyce Kostoff (1989--2007; his death) </Td> </Tr> <P> Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917--January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer . </P> <P> He came to prominence in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award . He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20 - year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963--66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965--70) and Hart to Hart (1979--84). He became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best - selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time . </P> <P> Sheldon was born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago, Illinois . His parents, of Russian Jewish ancestry, were Ascher "Otto" Schechtel (1894--1967), manager of a jewelry store, and Natalie Marcus . At 10, Sidney made his first sale, US $5 for a poem . During the Depression, he worked at a variety of jobs, and after graduating from East High School (Denver), he attended Northwestern University on a scholarship and contributed short plays to drama groups . He had to drop out after six months during the Depression era to help support his family . </P>

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