Sidney Sheldon is a famous contemporary American writer of popular novels. He graduated from Northwest University in his early years, served in the US Air Force during World War II, and wrote plays for Broadway after retirement. He won the Tony Drama Award and the Oscar Film Award. /kloc-published his first novel "Naked Face" in 0/970 and won the "Poe" award. Sidney Sheldon is the best storyteller in the world, and his works have been translated into the most languages in the world. His works have been translated into 565,438+0 languages and introduced to 65,438+080 countries around the world. This record was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1997. Most of his novels are based on the activities of the upper class in the west, and the protagonists are mostly women who are constantly striving for self-improvement and struggling with society to the death. The admiration for the strong has a social Darwinism atmosphere. The story in the novel is full of ups and downs, suspense, large time and space span, many characters and a wide range of fields, which makes people feel relaxed and happy after reading it. His main works include Anger of Angels, Bloody Diamonds, If Tomorrow Comes, etc. Dan brown: He took me to the road of writing. Dan brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code, revealed in a self-report that Sidney Sheldon inspired him to write. When I was a child, dan brown had many books at home, from Faulkner to Tolstoy, but it was Sidney Sheldon's The Plot of the End of the World that inspired him to write. "It caught me, quickly turned over a page, and awakened my great pleasure in reading." Dan brown said, "Simple prose writing and efficient story structure are much lighter than those heavy novels I read at school. I began to think that maybe one day, I can write such a creepy novel. " China scholar An Zhi: He is "the father of China's popular novels". An Zhi doesn't think Sidney Sheldon is a great writer, but he has made great contributions and influences to China's novels. It is no exaggeration to say that he is "the father of China's popular novels". In the 1980s, before his book came out, it can be said that there were basically no popular novels in China. The introduction of Sheldon's works has opened the eyes of domestic readers and set an example for domestic writers. Today, the style of popular novels occupies a large proportion in novels. I learned this after Sheldon. His novels directly describe modern life, in which the essential elements are tense plot, ups and downs of characters' fate, inspiration, struggle and final victory. Before him, few people wrote about urban life in domestic novels, especially against the background of upper-class society. But now, Sheldon can be found in the highest-ranking writers in China, and they all have corresponding works to sit in the right place. Thus, Sidney Sheldon inadvertently became "the father of China's popular novels".