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Their thirty years of marriage ended when his wife died in 1985 following a heart attack. In 1951 he got married to Jorja Curtright with whom he had a daughter, Mary Sheldon who also became a novelist. They parted ways in 1948 after realizing their marriage was a mistake. In 1945, he got married to his first wife, Jane Harding. Mr Sheldon also got to serve as a pilot with the Army Air Corps during World War II.

In 1941, he was lucky enough to sell ‘South of the Panama’ for $250. He would also write his own screenplays at night. His efforts deemed almost futile but he managed to get a job proofreading material intended for film production. Hoping to make something out of his writing talent, Sheldon left for Hollywood at the age of seventeen. While there, he made more earnings for himself by providing drama groups with short plays. He attended East High School in Denver and later on proceeded to Northwestern University. As the Depression hit America while Sheldon was growing up, he found himself a number of jobs to generate income. Writing was so natural to him that at the age of ten he was able to write a poem which sold for $5. Life and times of Sidney Sheldonīorn as Sidney Schechtel on the 11th of February 1917 in Chicago, Illinois USA, Sheldon lived to be eighty nine and passed on while in California in January 2007. He is considered the seventh best fiction writer of all time. Such talent and creativity earned him a number of awards cutting across the literature and filming worlds.

His works consist of novels written by himself and some extrapolated by other authors as well as television and film adaptations of his novels. That which is of great quality speaks for itself and this is the level in which Sheldon’s stories can be categorized. He continues to be accorded literary honor even posthumously. His works are prized for their excellence and uniqueness. Sidney Sheldon is a household name among avid readers of thrillers and crime fiction. The Tides of Memory (With: Tilly Bagshawe) After the Darkness (With: Tilly Bagshawe)