LOS ANGELES - Sidney Sheldon who won awards in three careers_ Broadway theater, movies, 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 of more than 25 years. His wife Alexandra and his daughter, author Mary Sheldon, were by his side.

Rest in peace Mr. Sheldon…

He was one of my favorite authors. As my mom called him her “favorite dirty old man.”

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