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Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer. He has published seventeen novels and a non-fiction book. Eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film.

Sparks was inspired to start writing by a remark from his mother when he was 19 years old. While still in school in 1985, Sparks penned his first (never published) novel, The Passing, while home for the summer between freshman and sophomore years at Notre Dame. He wrote another novel in 1989, also unpublished, The Royal Murders. After college, Sparks sought work with publishers and to attend law school, but was rejected in both attempts. He then spent the next three years trying other careers, including real estate appraisal, waiting tables, selling dental products by phone and starting his own manufacturing business.

In 1990, Sparks co-wrote with Billy Mills Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding. The book was published by Feather Publishing, Random House, and Hay House. Sales for this book approximated 50,000 copies in its first year after release. In 1992, Sparks began selling pharmaceuticals and in 1993 was transferred to Washington, DC. It was there that he wrote another novel in his spare time, The Notebook. Two years later, he was discovered by literary agent Theresa Park, who picked The Notebook out of her agency's slush pile, liked it, and offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for The Notebook from Time Warner Book Group. The novel was published in October 1996 and made the New York Times best-seller list in its first week of release.

With the success of his first novel, he moved to New Bern, North Carolina. He subsequently wrote several international bestsellers, and several of his novels have been adapted as 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), and The Best of Me (2014). His website states that he has also sold the screenplay adaptations of True Believer and At First Sight.

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Books

1. Wokini
2. The Notebook
3. Message in a Bottle
4. A Walk to Remember
5. The Rescue
6. A Bend in the Road
7. Nights in Rodanthe
8. The Guardian
9. The Wedding
10. Three Weeks with My Brother
11. True Believer
12. At First Sight
13. Dear John
14. The Choice
15. The Lucky One
16. The Last Song
17. Safe Haven
18. The Best of Me
19. The Longest Ride
20. See Me
21. Two By Two