PARIS: Best selling US author Danielle Steel has been awarded France's highest honor, the government's official newsletter revealed Wednesday, one of hundreds of personalities to be given the Legion d'honneur on New Year's Day.

Steel joins other foreigners such as singers Bono and Bob Dylan or writer Philip Roth awarded the "Ordre National de la Legion d'honneur" in recognition of service to France or work that is deemed to uphold its ideals.

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