Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Charles Sparks ( born December 31, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American writer.
Life
Nicholas Sparks' family frequently moved their place of residence. She moved from Omaha to Minnesota in 1969 to Los Angeles from there for a year to Grand Iceland (Nebraska ), and finally to Fair Oaks, California.
Nicholas Sparks received after finishing school in 1984 an athletics scholarship to the University of Notre Dame ( Notre Dame, Indiana). After completing his undergraduate studies in 1988 he failed to gain admission to law school. Since his first two novels, which he had written while studying, had been rejected, he made his way with different jobs. Among other things, he worked as a real estate agent, renovated houses, worked as a waiter and telemarketers, until he founded his own small firm, however, had to contend sometimes with financial difficulties and was sold. He then worked as a medical sales representatives.
The two created during his time at university novels remained unpublished. In 1990, he co-authored with Billy Mills Wokini or The search for the hidden fortune, which was published by a small publishing house. In June 1994, Sparks began a novel about the history of the grandparents of his wife, The Notebook was published under the title and his first worldwide bestseller. It was followed by other novels, some of which were filmed.
He is married to his wife Catherine ( Cathy ) since 1989 and lives in North Carolina, where most of his novels are set. The couple has five children: Landon, Miles, Ryan, Lexie, and Savannah. The names of his children used Sparks for the main characters of his books ( the name Miles Ryan in the way of dreams, Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember - A Walk to Remember, Savannah Curtis in Dear John and Lexie Darnell in The proximity of Heaven / The Miracle of the moment ). Even after his wife a book character was named ( in wide as the sea ).
Works
- With Billy Mills: Wokini. A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self - Understanding, 1990 ( German Wokini or The search for the hidden fortune, 2001, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3- 453-18680 -X)
- The Notebook 1996 (Eng. The Notebook, 1996, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-81015-5 )
- Message in a Bottle, 1998 ( German wide as the sea, 1998, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-81017-1 )
- A Walk to Remember, 1999 ( German time in the wind, 1999, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-81011-2 )
- The Rescue, 2000 (Eng. The Rescue, 2000, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-81023-6 )
- A Bend in the Road, 2001 ( German way of dreams, 2001, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-81003-1 )
- Nights in Rodanthe, 2002 ( German Nights in Rodanthe, 2003, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-87337-8 )
- The Guardian, 2003 (English You are never alone, 2004, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-81010-4 )
- The Wedding, 2003 ( dt A day like a life, 2004, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-40187-5 ) - builds partly on The Notebook on
- Along with Micah Sparks: Three Weeks With My Brother, 2004 ( German Near and far - The journey of our life, in 2005, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-01218-6 )
- True Believer, 2005 (Eng. The proximity of Heaven, 2005, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-81067-8 )
- At First Sight, 2005 (Eng. The miracle of a moment, in 2006, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-02100-2 ) - is based on the proximity of the sky
- Dear John, 2006 (Eng. Dear John, 2007, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-50382-3 )
- The Choice, 2007 (Eng. Until the last day, 2008, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-40639-1 )
- The Lucky One, 2008 (Eng. Forever Thine, 2009, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-26553-0 )
- The Last Song 2009 (English With you by my side, in 2010, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-26652-0 )
- Safe Haven, 2010 (Eng. Like a light at night, April 2011, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-26683-4 )
- The Best of Me, 2011 (Eng. My Way to You, April 2012, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-26684-1 )
- The Longest Ride 2013 ( German No place without you, November 2013, Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-26839-5 )