Nicholas Charles Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska on December 31, 1965, the second son of Patrick Michael (1942-1996) and Jill Emma Marie (Thoene) Sparks (1942-1989). His siblings are Michael Earl Sparks (b. Dec. 1964), and Danielle Sparks (b. Dec. 1966, d. June, 2000). As a child, he lived in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska, finally settling in Fair Oaks, California at the age of eight. His father was a professor, his mother a homemaker, then optometrist's assistant. He lived in Fair Oaks through high school, graduated valedictorian in 1984, and received a full track scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.
After breaking the Notre Dame school record as part of a relay team in 1985 as a freshman (a record which still stands), he was injured and spent the summer recovering. During that summer, he wrote his first novel, though it was never published. He majored in Business Finance and graduated with high honors in 1988.
He and his wife Catherine, who met on spring break in 1988, were married in July, 1989. While living in Sacramento, he wrote his second novel that same year, though again, it wasn't published. He worked a variety of jobs over the next three years, including real estate appraisal, waiting tables, selling dental products by phone, and started his own small manufacturing business which struggled from the beginning. In 1990, he collaborated on a book with Billy Mills, the Olympic Gold Medalist and it was published by Feather Publishing before later being picked up by Random House. (It was recently re-issued by Hay House Books.) Though it received scant publicity, sales topped 50,000 copies in the first year of release.
He began selling pharmaceuticals and moved from Sacramento, California to North Carolina in 1992. In 1994, at the age of 28, he wrote The Notebook over a period of six months. In October, 1995, rights to The Notebook were sold to Warner Books. It was published in October, 1996, and he followed that with Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), and Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), Three Weeks with my Brother (2004), True Believer (2005) and At First Sight (2005) all with Warner Books. All were domestic and international best sellers and were translated into more than 35 languages. The movie version of Message in a Bottle was released in 1999, A Walk to Remember was released in 2002, and The Notebook was released in 2004. The average domestic box office gross per film was $56 million -- with another $100 million in DVD sales -- making the novels by Nicholas Sparks one of the most successful franchises in Hollywood.
The film rights to Nights in Rodanthe, True Believer and At First Sight have been sold, and Nicholas Sparks has written the screenplay for The Guardian, though he has not offered it for sale at this point.
He now has five children: Miles, Ryan, Landon, Lexie, and Savannah. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and children.
His ancestry is German, Czech, English, and Irish, he's 5'10" and weighs 180 lbs. He is an avid athlete who runs daily, lifts weights regularly, and competes in Tae Kwon Do. He attends church regularly and reads approximately 125 books a year. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually.
An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.
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评分爱,无论多深,多么真实,都那么岌岌可危。 也许我们对自己存有百分之百的信心,却总是对别人怀有疑虑。 他人总是未知,只要是未知,我们就会恐惧,恐惧失去。 是彼此相爱。是让人艳羡的爱情。可终究无法经受时间的折磨,始终无法忍受思念的摧残。 曾经我们信誓旦旦,会对...
评分很长时间没有看过小说。那天去图书馆借《查令十字街84号》时,在书架的旁边看到这本《分手信》。 虽不曾听说过这个作者,翻看介绍发现他的作品翻拍成电影的那些我看过都还喜欢,顺手也就带回了家。 花几个睡前的晚上时间看完。 虽然不是什么旷世之作,可是那种温情脉脉的恋...
评分你的父亲在你的身边,你的父亲和你相依为命。作为一个男人,你会在成长的过程中和父亲发生必然的矛盾,抗争,对峙,激化,直到最后和解,像兄弟一样和睦相处。这是父亲和儿子的战争,也是亲情的较量。 你的情人在你的身边,你的情人和你心心相印。作为一个女人,她会在你的身...
评分真心无聊,看了50%还是只是到两人度假后相遇后分开互相写信那一段,现在已经发生的唯一戏剧性的点就是爸爸的病那个点,就这样吧。
评分20140424-20140426。我已经懒到躲开经典英文读物而投入简单英文畅销书的地步了。。。内容很通俗易读,描写也还细腻,虽然内容落俗套,但是很多让人感同身受的小细节真的很出彩。不过最让我感动的,甚至哭得跟傻缺似的,还是John和他的父亲,至少这个不小的篇幅,很给这本书挣分~
评分真的是一个无聊的美国琼瑶爱情小说呢,"i dont know"蠢大兵和农场甜心女孩的情感纠葛。蠢大兵说来说去就是我有多爱她,电影让查宁塔图姆来演真是太适合了
评分S says, "The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."
评分真的是一个无聊的美国琼瑶爱情小说呢,"i dont know"蠢大兵和农场甜心女孩的情感纠葛。蠢大兵说来说去就是我有多爱她,电影让查宁塔图姆来演真是太适合了
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