Author Information- Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks Books
Since I have just started a new book, The Choice. I am going to write my blog this week on the author, Nicholas Sparks. Sparks is known as the worlds bestselling author of love stories. He has sold over 89 million copies of his books and has seven #1 New York Times bestsellers. Out of the 17 novels he has written 7 of them have be turned into movie including The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Message in a Bottle, Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, The Last Song and The Lucky One. Sparks gets his inspiration for the heart string pulling love stories from experiences in his own life, for example A Walk to Remember was written to mirror how his sister died at a young age of just 33. Even though most of his novels are geared more towards women he says "Writing is an art,but publishing is a business. I have to have a theme that appeals to a lot of people.".
Growing Up and Family
Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965. Sparks was one of three children including him, his brother and his sister. His family moved around a lot because his father was finishing up his graduate work. They finally settled in, in Fair Oaks, California where Sparks became the class valedictorian. Sparks went to college at the University of Notre Dame where he ran track for them his freshman year and wasn't able to continue do to an Achilles tendon injury. Since he wasn't able to run he took up writing. Years later he graduated with honors and met his future wife, Catherine. They married the following two year later. His writing career still hadn't kicked off yet but he was determined no matter what, that when he wrote The Notebook. Within a short period of time he got a book deal and a $1 million dollar movie contract. That was just the start of him becoming a best selling author. Today he lives Sparks lives in New Bern, North Carolina with his wife and five children: Miles, Ryan, Landon, Lexie, and Savannah.
Books Nicholas Sparks has written
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I love Nicholas Sparks books! He is an amazing author and I am about to start one of his books now! thanks for letting me know some of his great books, it is very helpful!
ReplyDeleteI love how much detail you wrote about Nicholas Sparks and I love the books he wrote like the notebook. I really want to read more of books written by him.
ReplyDeleteI have only seen some of the movies based on his books. I haven't read any of his books but I think I'm going to now! I thought the movies were good so I would think the books are even better. I really like how much information you put into your post. I also like how you had links for each book so that we can read further information on them. I thought that was very creative. :)
ReplyDeleteI like how you went into detail about the author. I have read many of his books and enjoy them alot and hope he keeps on writing great stories.
ReplyDeleteI love his books! This post was the best one you have written that i have seen! you really make me want to read more of your post! Good job, keep up the good work!
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