At 50 Sheldon had already earned a Tony Award for a Broadway musical, a screenwriting Oscar — for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant—and television immortality for creating The Patty Duke Show and I Dream of Jeannie. Only then did he begin writing the unabashedly commercial novels that would make him a household name. His books, which include Rage of Angels and Master of the Game, have sold more than 300 million copies in 51 languages.