Posted AT 11:16 PM EST on 30/01/07
Sidney Sheldon, 89
LOS ANGELES — Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers — Broadway theatre, movies and television — then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.
Sheldon died Tuesday afternoon of complications from pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, said Warren Cowan, his publicist. His wife, Alexandra, was by his side.
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