Life of Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is one of the most passionate and greatest American authors of today. He connects with all of his readers by providing love, romance, tragedy, and passion through all of his novels. Nicholas Sparks is an author whose writing inspires every single one of his readers in one way or another. All of Spark’s novels are based on love and triumph. He writes love stories in which the search for love differs, but each story is one worth experiencing. Sparks has transformed the romantic genre in today’s literature. Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31st, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska ("The Notebook"). He is the son of Patrick Michael, who passed away in 1996 due to a car accident, and Jill Emma Marie, who passed away in 1989 due to a horseback riding accident. Nicholas Sparks has two siblings ("The Notebook"). One older bother, Michael, who was born in 1964 and one younger sister, Danielle, who was born in 1966, and passed away in 2000 at the age of thirty-four ("The Notebook"). After years of living in many places, at the age of eight his family finally settled in California. California became their permanent home as Nicholas grew up and graduated at the top of his class where he received a full scholarship to the University of Notre Dame for track and field where he majored in Business Finance. As a freshman at the University of Notre Dame, he broke the schools record as a member of a relay team, which still stands today (Miller). At the end of his freshman year, Sparks injured his Achilles tendon, which caused him to take a summer off. During his summer of healing, his mother suggested that he write a book and this is when he wrote his first novel, The Passing, which to this day has not been published (Miller). After moving to Sacramento, California with his wife, he wrote his second novel. Sparks began manufacturing orthopedic goods ("Nicholas Sparks"). This was not his dream job, but he made a profit while still managing to write. After the birth of