Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks (born 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American novelist. His debut novel The Notebook (1996) became a New York Times bestseller and, like several of his later books — Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Dear John, The Lucky One — was adapted for cinema. His novels, focused on love, loss and grief and set most often in coastal North Carolina, have sold more than 130 million copies in over fifty languages.