Nicholas sparks biography facts

(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Author Nicholas Sparks wrote his first (unpublished) novel while sidelined by a sports injury.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 igen 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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Nicholas Sparks

American writer and novelist (born 1965)

For other uses, see Nicholas Sparks (disambiguation).

Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and bio producer. He has published twenty-three novels, all New York Times bestsellers,^[1] and two works of nonfiction, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in more than 50 languages.^[2] Among his works are The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle all of which, along with eight other books, have been adapted as feature films.^[3]

Sparks lives in North Carolina, where many of his novels are set.^[4]

Early life and education

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Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska.^[5] His father, Patrick Michael Sparks, was a business professor and his mother, Jill Emma Marie Sparks (née Thoene), was a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant.^[6] Sparks is of German, Czech,

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Nicholas Sparks Facts

Nicholas Sparks' inspiration for the main character in A Walk to Remember was his younger sister Danielle who died from a brain tumor. The Notebook was not Nicholas Sparks' first published book. In 1990 he co-wrote Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding, with Billy Mills. It was published by Feather Publishing, Hay House and Random House, selling 50,000 copies in its first year. Nicholas Sparks' first completed novel was The Passing, which he finished in 1985 but it has not been published. He also wrote a novel The Royal Murders, in 1989, which is not published. Nicholas Sparks' mother was killed in a horseback riding accident in 1989, only six weeks after Nicholas married his wife Catherine Cole. While trying to write and sell his first novel Nicholas Sparks worked a variety of careers including real estate appraisal, food services, dental supply sales, and home restoration. The Notebook became a bestse