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Nicholas Sparks
(1965-)
Who Is Nicholas Sparks?
Author Nicholas Sparks wrote his first (unpublished) novel while sidelined by a sports injury. He then attended the University of Notre Dame and went into sales. Business setbacks got him writing again and in 1995, he finished The Notebook, which was a best-seller and later turned into a hit movie. He followed this novel with Message in a Bottle, Nights in Rodanthe and The Longest Ride, among others.
Early Life
Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska. The second of three children born to Patrick Sparks, a college professor, and his wife Jill, a homemaker, Sparks spent the early part of his childhood moving around with his family as his father finished up his graduate work. They lived in Minnesota, then Los Angeles, later Grand Island, Nebraska, and finally Fair Oaks, California, where the Sparks clan found a permanent home. Sparks went on to graduate from high school there in 1984, becoming the class
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The Profile
Nicholas Sparks describes his genre of novels as “tragic love stories.” And as the author of The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Dear John, and A Message in a Bottle, he has done just that. It’s nearly impossible to get through one of his books without shedding a tear.
“I try to create modern-day versions of the Greek Tragedies,” he says. “Sophocles and Euripides wrote their plays with the intention that the audience experiences the full range of human emotion, including both love and tragedy. More than that, they wanted to genuinely evoke these emotions without being manipulative. To read those plays fryst vatten to ‘experience all the emotions of life.’”
Sparks was 28 years old when he wrote The Notebook in six weeks, a novel about a ung couple who falls in love in the 1940s and spend the rest of their lives making their way back to each other. When Sparks published the book in 1996, it hit The New York Times bestseller list in its first week and stayed there for mo
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Biography
Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 92 million copies in the United States alone.
Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), Two by Two (2016), Every Breath (2018), The Return (2020), The Wish (2021), and Dreamland (2022) as well as the 2004 non-fiction me