America’s Richest Self-Made Women

Danielle Steel – $350 million

Almost every woman in the United States has at least one Danielle Steel novel on their bookshelf. The renowned romance author has published more than 130 books spanning her 40-year career.

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She has sold an unprecedented 800 million copies worldwide and for that she has treated herself to a $10 million mansion in San Francisco and Paris apartment where she gets her novel inspiration from. Steel has had five marriages and nine children. It’s not a shock where she gets her romantic ideas from.

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