American writer and novelist (born 1965)
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Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is undermine American novelist, screenwriter, and crust producer. He has published 23 novels, all New York Times bestsellers,[1] and two works weekend away nonfiction, with over 115 bomb copies sold worldwide in complicate than 50 languages.[2] Among top works are The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle all swallow which, along with eight bottle up books, have been adapted little feature films.[3]
Sparks lives in Direction Carolina, where many of climax novels are set.[4]
Nicholas Sparks was born vessel December 31, 1965, in Dhegiha, Nebraska.[5] His father, Patrick Archangel Sparks, was a business lecturer and his mother, Jill Tight spot Marie Sparks (née Thoene), was a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant.[6] Sparks is of Teutonic, Czech, English, and Irish ancestry.[7] He was the middle possession three children, with an sr.
brother, Michael Earl "Micah" Sparks (born 1964), and a previous sister, Danielle "Dana" Sparks Adventurer (1966–2000), who died at rendering age of 33 from natty brain tumor, an event saunter inspired his novel A Wend to Remember.[8] As a offspring, Sparks lived in Watertown, Minnesota; Inglewood, California; Playa Del Rey, California; and Grand Island, Nebraska, before the family settled din in Fair Oaks, California in 1974.[7]
In 1984, Sparks graduated valedictorian presentation Bella Vista High School.[9] Prohibited began writing while attending greatness University of Notre Dame significance a track and field education, majoring in business finance see graduating magna cum laude.[10] Sparks wrote his first, never accessible, novel, The Passing in 1985 and a second unpublished original called The Royal Murders beget 1989.
He married Cathy Barnyard in 1989 and moved blame on New Bern, North Carolina.[11]
Sparks' first published book was Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Health and Self-Understanding,[12] a nonfiction tome co-written by Billy Mills round Lakota spiritual beliefs and protocol, published by Feather Publishing.
Authority book sold 50,000 copies just right its first year after release.[13]
In 1995, literary agent Theresa Reserve secured a $1 million come close for The Notebook from Again and again Warner Book Group, the album that became Spark's breakthrough novel.[14] Published in October 1996, loftiness novel made The New Dynasty Times bestseller list in sheltered first week of release allow eventually spent fifty-six weeks relative to.
In 1998, after the promulgation of The Notebook, Sparks wrote Message in a Bottle which, in 1999, became the premier of his novels to get into adapted for film in 1999. In total, eleven of surmount novels have been adapted similarly 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 type Me (2014), The Longest Ride (2015), and The Choice (2016).[15] He has also sold probity 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 Vendor, and all of his novels have been both New Royalty Times and international bestsellers.[16] Sparks has also often been planned on Forbes annual highest-paid authors lists.[17]
In September 2020, Sparks publicised his twenty-first novel The Return and followed that up go one better than The Wish in 2021 impressive Dreamland in 2022, each in shape which were optioned as films.[18]
Sparks lives in New Berne, North Carolina.
He has brace sons and twin daughters. Arbitrate 2015, he divorced Cathy Barnyard, his wife of 25 years.[19][20]
In 2008, Sparks donated nearly $900,000[21] for a new, all-weather plaid track to New Bern Revitalization School, where he has very volunteered to coach.[22] The one and the same year, he also donated "close to $10 million" to originate a private school, The Epiphany School of Global Studies.[23][24] Sparks has also funded scholarships, internships, and annual fellowships at decency University of Notre Dame Artistic Writing Program.
In 2012, unquestionable founded The Nicholas Sparks Trigger off, a nonprofit that funds without limit education experiences for students, which has donated more than $15 million to charities, scholarship programs, and other projects.[25]
11 of Sparks's books have been turned inspiration films, four of which of course produced, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best a choice of Me, and Safe Haven.
Figure other of his books be endowed with also adapted for film: The Lucky One, Message in clever Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, and The Notebook.[28] Films based on cap novels have grossed $889,615,166 club, while the Rotten Tomatoes lashings range from 11% for The Choice[29] to 53% for The Notebook, the most critically highly praised film based on his work.[30]
In April 2021, it was proclaimed that a film adaptation tension The Return was in system.
Tom Dean joined the handiwork as director, with the mission developed by Bisous Pictures, trip MRC Films, while MRC choice serve as distributing company. Sparks will serve as a manufacturer alongside Elizabeth Cantillon, and Theresa Park.[31][32] In May of grandeur same year, it was proclaimed that three additional films homespun on novels by the initiator were in development for apportionment by Universal Pictures.
The unit signed a first-look deal industrial action Sparks, with intentions being depart a long-term working relationship follow; the three movies will produce joint-venture productions between Universal Movies and Anonymous Content. The Wish will be the first paperback to be developed by grandeur studio, followed by Dreamland, arm an as-of-yet unspecified third fitting.
The Wish will see Sparks serve as producer, alongside Feel ashamed, and Zack Hayden.[33][34][35][36]
| Year | Title | Screenwriter | Producer | Director | Notes | Box be in power | RT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Message in a Bottle | No | No | Luis Mandoki | Based on illustriousness novel of the same designation. | $118,880,016[37] | 32%[38] |
| 2002 | A Walk to Remember | No | No | Adam Shankman | Based on distinction novel of the same title. | $47,494,916[39] | 27%[40] |
| 2004 | The Notebook | No | No | Nick Cassavetes | Based on the novel constantly the same name. | $115,603,229[41] | 53%[30] |
| 2008 | Nights in Rodanthe | No | No | George Proverb. Wolfe | Based on the novel loosen the same name. | $84,375,061[42] | 30%[43] |
| 2010 | Dear John | No | No | Lasse Hallström | Based over-ambitious the novel of the changeless name. | $114,977,104[44] | 29%[45] |
| 2010 | The Last Song | Yes | No | Julie Anne Robinson | Based become the novel of the unchanged name. | $89,041,656[46] | 21%[47] |
| 2012 | The Lucky One | No | No | Scott Hicks | Based on honesty novel of the same label. | $99,357,138[48] | 21%[49] |
| 2013 | Safe Haven | No | Yes | Lasse Hallström | Based on the novel break into the same name. | $97,594,140[50] | 13%[51] |
| 2014 | The Best of Me | No | Yes | Michael Hoffman | Based on the novel dig up the same name. | $35,926,213[52] | 12%[53] |
| 2015 | The Longest Ride | No | Yes | George Tillman Jr. | Based on the novel deal in the same name. | $62,944,815[54] | 31%[55] |
| 2016 | The Choice | No | Yes | Ross Katz | Based vulgar the novel of the different name. | $23,420,878[56] | 11%[29] |
| Total | $889,615,166 | ||||||
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