Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter and producer. He has published eighteen novels and two nonfiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romanticdrama novels have been adapted to film with multimilliondollar box office grosses.

Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Patrick Michael Sparks, a professor of business, and Jill Emma Marie Sparks , a homemaker and an optometrists assistant. He was the middle of three children, with an older brother, Michael Earl Micah Sparks , and a younger sister, Danielle Dana Sparks , who died at the age offrom a brain tumor. Sparks has said that she is the inspiration for the main character in his novel A Walk to Remember.

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