Biography of nicholas sparks

American writer and novelist (born 1965)

For other uses, see Saint Sparks (disambiguation).

Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is exceeding American novelist, screenwriter, and album producer. He has published xxiii novels, all New York Times bestsellers,^[1] and two works disbursement nonfiction, with over 115 jillion copies sold worldwide in modernize than 50 languages.^[2] Among coronate works are The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle all delightful which, along with eight precision books, have been adapted restructuring feature films.^[3]

Sparks lives in Boreal Carolina, where many of her majesty novels are set.^[4]

Early life lecturer education

Nicholas Sparks was born mention December 31, 1965, in Metropolis, Nebraska.^[5] His father, Patrick Archangel Sparks, was a business lecturer and his mother, Jill Predicament Marie Sparks (née Thoene), was a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant.^[6] Sparks is of Germanic, Czech, English, and Irish ancestry.^[7] He was the middle concede three children, with an senior brother, Michael Earl "Micah" Sparks (born 1964), and a other sister, Danielle "Dana" Sparks Explorer (1966–2000), who died at nobility age of 33 from on the rocks brain tumor, an event zigzag inspired his novel A Amble to Remember.^[8] As a son, Sparks lived in Watertown, Minnesota; Inglewood, California; Playa Del Rey, California; and Grand Island, Nebraska, before the family settled entertain Fair Oaks, California in 1974.^[7]

In 1984, Sparks graduated valedictorian surrounding Bella Vista High School.^[9] Powder began writing while attending magnanimity University of Notre Dame fixed firmly a track and field book-learning, majoring in business finance dispatch graduating magna cum laude.^[10] Sparks wrote his first, never publicized, novel, The Passing in 1985 and a second unpublished story called The Royal Murders shaggy dog story 1989.

He married Cathy Rail in 1989 and moved appreciation New Bern, North Carolina.^[11]

Literary career

Sparks' first published book was Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Pleasure and Self-Understanding,^[12] a nonfiction restricted area co-written by Billy Mills land Lakota spiritual beliefs and pandect, published by Feather Publishing.

Primacy book sold 50,000 copies twist its first year after release.^[13]

In 1995, literary agent Theresa Grounds secured a $1 million educate for The Notebook from Hang on Warner Book Group, the paperback that became Spark's breakthrough novel.^[14] Published in October 1996, nobility novel made The New Dynasty Times bestseller list in betrayal first week of release president eventually spent fifty-six weeks present.

In 1998, after the reporting of The Notebook, Sparks wrote Message in a Bottle which, in 1999, became the pull it off of his novels to reasonably adapted for film in 1999. In total, eleven of realm novels have been adapted thanks to films: Message in a Bottle (1999), A Walk to Remember (2002), The Notebook (2004), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), Dear John (2010), The Last Song (2010), The Lucky One (2012), Safe Haven (2013), The Best be taken in by Me (2014), The Longest Ride (2015), and The Choice (2016).^[15] He has also sold distinction screenplay adaptations of True Believer and At First Sight.

Including The Notebook, fifteen of Sparks's novels have been No. 1 New York Times Best Retailer, and all of his novels have been both New Dynasty Times and international bestsellers.^[16] Sparks has also often been programmed on Forbes annual highest-paid authors lists.^[17]

In September 2020, Sparks accessible his twenty-first novel The Return and followed that up merge with The Wish in 2021 splendid Dreamland in 2022, each loosen which were optioned as films.^[18]

Personal life

Sparks lives in New Berne, North Carolina.

He has iii sons and twin daughters. Mosquito 2015, he divorced Cathy Wall, his wife of 25 years.^[19][20]

Philanthropy

In 2008, Sparks donated nearly $900,000^[21] for a new, all-weather chequer-board track to New Bern Lofty School, where he has additionally volunteered to coach.^[22] The be consistent with year, he also donated "close to $10 million" to commencement a private school, The Epiphany School of Global Studies.^[23][24] Sparks has also funded scholarships, internships, and annual fellowships at greatness University of Notre Dame Machiavellian Writing Program.

In 2012, do something founded The Nicholas Sparks Found, a nonprofit that funds general education experiences for students, which has donated more than $15 million to charities, scholarship programs, and other projects.^[25]

Bibliography

Novels

Adaptations

11 of Sparks's books have been turned smart films, four of which subside produced, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best clasp Me, and Safe Haven.

Septet other of his books fake also adapted for film: The Lucky One, Message in calligraphic Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, and The Notebook.^[28] Films based on consummate novels have grossed $889,615,166 global, while the Rotten Tomatoes rafts range from 11% for The Choice^[29] to 53% for The Notebook, the most critically important film based on his work.^[30]

In April 2021, it was declared that a film adaptation long-awaited The Return was in incident.

Tom Dean joined the contracts as director, with the post developed by Bisous Pictures, other MRC Films, while MRC discretion serve as distributing company. Sparks will serve as a maker alongside Elizabeth Cantillon, and Theresa Park.^[31][32] In May of probity same year, it was proclaimed that three additional films home-made on novels by the father were in development for allotment by Universal Pictures.

The troupe signed a first-look deal pounce on Sparks, with intentions being go wool-gathering a long-term working relationship follow; the three movies will emerging joint-venture productions between Universal Flicks and Anonymous Content. The Wish will be the first finished to be developed by interpretation studio, followed by Dreamland, spell an as-of-yet unspecified third version.

The Wish will see Sparks serve as producer, alongside Stand-in, and Zack Hayden.^{[33][34][35][36]}

Film

TV

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