But an accident concerning her daughter became the turning point for her. He had bipolar disease.ĭuring the early days and months after Nick’s death Steel was in deep despair. Nick continued to make the honor roll at school despite his learning difficulties. He was destructive yet never hurt anyone intentionally. At age 11, he was harder to control and handle. “I know now that this was not normal but at the time, it was so utterly remarkable,” Steele said.Īs he grew older, the signs of his disability became more obvious. I spoke in Spanish to him most of the time.” She continues, “Nick exploded into life and began speaking at the same time he started walking.” Nicholas was speaking in full sentences by the time he was a year old. “Nicky was a child who made you laugh and he always looked at me as if he wanted to say something to me and when he was around seven or eight months old he began talking.
Proceeds from the book which made it to the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers list were used to found the Nick Trania Foundation which Steele runs to fund organizations dedicating to treating mental illness. Steel wrote the nonfiction book, ‘His Bright Light’ in honor of his memory which talks about his life and death. He was also the lead singer of the San Francisco punk band groups Link 80 and Knowledge. Nicholas was a manic-depressive child and later committed suicide overdosing on heroine. Perhaps the most traumatic event of her life is the birth of her son, Nicholas Trania. All her novels have been bestsellers including those issued in hardback. The writer’s own life story is a checkered history of failed marriages but interestingly, she kept at her pen and with every new alliance sprung a novel of magnificence. But her novel, ‘A Gift of Hope’ brings out the inspiration behind the act of charity and concludes in a ‘moving and inspirational true story.”
For a prolific writer with huge demands on her time, it is hard to understand how she found the time to do this charity work. Steel gave away good quality sleeping bags, warm jackets, gloves and warm socks stocked in two vans. In fact, the book is a narrative about her 11-year experience on the streets of Los Angeles with her friends and employees under cover of darkness to help the needy and homeless using her own resources without fanfare.
‘A Gift of Hope’ is a personal memoir but it is not the conventional life story about the author, her parents, education or techniques in writing. Her book ‘A Gift of Hope’ was reissued last year but it’s reportedly as salable if not outselling her latest book, ‘Till the End of Time’ which hit bookstores last January. Danielle Steel, the famous American novelist with more than 90 books to her credit and sales of 60 million copies worldwide, is easily one of the most popular and best selling authors of our times.
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