Danielle Steel pushes herself away from her word processor for a few moments to show up at the start of NBC’s two-part, five-hour movie Danielle Steel’s Jewels to tell us just how “extraordinary” her ...

Twenty-four of Steel's novels have been adapted for television, including Daddy, above, starring Lynda Carter (left) and Patrick Duffy. The adaptation for her 1992 novel Jewels would garner two Golden ...