Editing Danielle Steel (section)

==Early life==
Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel in New York City to a German father and a Portuguese mother. Her father, John Schuelein-Steel, was a [[German-Jewish]] immigrant and a descendant of owners of [[Löwenbräu]] beer. Her mother, Norma da Camara Stone dos Reis, was the daughter of a Portuguese diplomat.<ref name="angel2"/><ref name="google">{{cite book|title=A to Z of American Women Writers|author=Kort, C.|date=2007|publisher=Facts On File, Incorporated|isbn=9781438107936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QyvXLgnTNpIC|page=311|access-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref><ref name="transworld"/><ref name="People">{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20113010,00.html|title=Danielle Steel|last=Chin|first=Paula|date=June 29, 1992|newspaper=[[People Magazine]]|access-date=January 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110070512/http://people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20113010,00.html|archive-date=January 10, 2011}}</ref>  She spent much of her childhood in [[France]],<ref name="holfer">{{cite magazine | last = Holfer | first = Robert| title = Danielle Steel | magazine = Variety | date = January 5, 2005 | url =https://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117956712.html?nav=goldstandard | access-date = April 19, 2007}}</ref> where from an early age she was included in her parents' dinner parties, giving her an opportunity to observe the habits and lives of the wealthy and famous.<ref name="transworld">{{cite web | title = Danielle Steel | publisher = Books At Transworld | url = http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/daniellesteel/home.htm | access-date = April 19, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071226031228/http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/daniellesteel/home.htm | archive-date = December 26, 2007 }}</ref> Her parents divorced when she was eight, and she was raised primarily by her father, rarely seeing her mother.<ref name="angel2">{{cite news |last=Angel |first=Karen |date=March 19, 2006 |title=Lonely Heart |newspaper=[[The Age]] |location=Melbourne |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/03/18/1142582568777.html |access-date=April 19, 2007}}</ref>

Steel started writing stories as a child, and by her late teens had begun writing poetry.<ref name="readersclub">{{cite web | last = L. | first = Rosanne | title = Meet the Author: Danielle Steel | publisher = Reader's Club | date = July 2004 | url = http://www.readersclub.org/meetAuthor.asp?author=14 | access-date = April 19, 2007 | archive-date = June 22, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070622234142/http://www.readersclub.org/meetAuthor.asp?author=14 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Raised Catholic, she thought of becoming a [[nun]] during her early years.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/people-books-steel-dc-idUSN2145543420080222 | work=Reuters | title=Author Danielle Steel had childhood dreams of becoming a nun | date=February 22, 2008}}</ref> A 1965 graduate of the ''[[Lycée Français de New York]]'',<ref name="lyceealumni">{{cite web| title =Alumni and Prof.'s on the Internet| publisher =Alumni Association of the Lycée Français de New York, Inc.| url =http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.21/53| access-date =April 19, 2007| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070928010656/http://www.lfnyalumni.org/en/news/no.21/53| archive-date =September 28, 2007}}</ref> she studied literature design and fashion design,<ref name="readersclub"/> first at [[Parsons School of Design]] and then at [[New York University]].<ref name="meetthewriters">{{cite web | title = Meet the Writers: Danielle Steel | publisher = Barnes and Noble | url =http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=748011 | access-date = April 19, 2007}}</ref>