Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Charles Sparks is a world-famous American writer and author of bestselling novels. By the most modest estimates, more than 50 million copies of Sparks’s books have been sold in the United States and abroad. The themes of his works are inseparably connected with Christianity, love, fate, and human feelings. He has 18 published novels to his credit. He lives in New Bern, North Carolina, USA, with his wife Cathy Cote and their five children. After the release of The Notebook, the first thing he bought was a new wedding ring for his wife. He invariably dedicates every new work to her. People Magazine named Sparks the most attractive author of the year.

Nicholas Sparks was born on New Year’s Eve in Omaha, Nebraska, into the family of professor Patrick Michael Sparks and homemaker Jill Emma Marie Sparks. In 1985, while still in school, Sparks wrote his first work, “The Passing” (never published). After graduating from school, he entered the Catholic University of Notre Dame, and in 1988, the year he graduated, he met his future wife Cathy Cote. After completing his studies at the university, he tried to begin a literary career by offering his novel The Royal Murders to various publishers, but was rejected everywhere, and for the next three years he had to work as a real estate appraiser, sell various dental products by telephone, and try to establish his own business producing orthopedic products.

In 1990, in collaboration with his friend, the former famous track and field athlete and 1964 Olympic champion Billy Mills, Sparks wrote the psychological work Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding. “Wokini” means the search for a new beginning in the Lakota Indian language. About 50,000 copies of the book were sold in the first year.

In 1992, Sparks began working for a pharmaceutical company and moved to Greenville, South Carolina. In his free time, he began writing the novel The Notebook. Two years later, the novel was noticed by literary agent Theresa Park, who secured a $1 million contract for publication. The Notebook was released in October 1996 and