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Nicholas Sparks

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December 31, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska, The United States

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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.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 874,979 ratings · 49,345 reviews · 68 distinct works
The Notebook
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 326,736 ratings — published 1996 — 81 editions
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A Walk to Remember
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 82,249 ratings — published 1999 — 66 editions
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Dear John
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 70,144 ratings — published 2006 — 61 editions
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The Last Song
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 56,722 ratings — published 2009 — 42 editions
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The Wedding
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 40,090 ratings37 editions
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Message in a Bottle
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 39,587 ratings — published 1998 — 65 editions
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The Guardian
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 31,182 ratings40 editions
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A Bend in the Road
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 31,854 ratings — published 2001 — 52 editions
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Nights In Rodanthe
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 34,291 ratings — published 2002 — 58 editions
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The Rescue
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 29,963 ratings51 editions
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“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it”
Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

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