The 21st century has seen a whole lot of writers who have wowed the world with their creative minds and ideas about life and other issues revolving around the human race. While it is true that the older generation boasts of packs of talented writers, the younger generation, where Nicholas Sparks belongs to, has also given birth to great authors who are changing lives through their works.
Sparks is an amazing writer with several international bestselling novels which focuses mainly on romance. However, the phenomenal author also writes screenplays. A good number of Nicholas’ novels are New York Times Best Sellers while some have been adapted as films by movie producers.
Nicholas Sparks Biography
In addition to writing, Nicholas Sparks is a film producer best known for being the executive producer of the 2014 American civic war western film, Deliverance Creek. Sparks is the second child of optometrist’s assistant/homemaker Jill Emma Marie Sparks (mother) and Patrick Michael Sparks (father). The writer’s mom gave birth to him in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States and his date of birth is December 31st, 1965.
While growing up, Nicholas spent his formative years in many cities with his family due to his dad’s graduate studies. He is said to have lived in places in the U.S such as California (Playa Del Rey, Inglewood), Minnesota, and Watertown. He also spent one year in Grand Island, Nebraska, which doubles as his mother’s hometown. It was while he was staying in the city that Patrick who later became a professor of business after graduating from the University of Southern California and the University of Minnesota separated from Jill.
The writer, whose full name is Nicholas Charles Sparks, has an older brother called Michael Earl Sparks as well as a younger sister (born 1966) who died from a brain tumor in the year 2000. Her name is Danielle Sparks. The siblings were all brought up in the Roman Catholic faith while their ethnicity is a unique blend of Irish, Czech, English, and German.
Nicholas had his high school education while living in Fair Oaks, California, where his family settled after his dad became a professor at California State University, Sacramento, in 1974. The writer completed his high school education at Bella Vista High School in 1984 and later joined the University of Notre Dame on a full sports scholarship. Although Sparks was admitted into the institution as a business finance student, he decided to give his writing ambition the much-needed attention in his early college years and since then, he has never slowed down. He subsequently passed out from Notre Dame with honors.
Sparks launched his writing career professionally in the year 1985 with the novel, “The Passing” while studying at the University of Notre Dame. His breakthrough novel titled “The Notebook” was written in 1993 while he was in Washington D.C selling pharmaceuticals. About eleven of his works are best sellers while others have been adapted as films.
Net Worth
Sparks isn’t a bestselling author for nothing; he is an old hand in the business and also boasts some of the world’s most thrilling romance novels. From writing and film production, the Omaha-born accomplished writer has made a net worth estimated at $30 million.
Married, Wife, and Divorce
Until 2014, Nicholas Sparks was happily married to Cathy Cote, a native of New Hampshire, in New England. The pair met for the first time when Sparks was on spring break in college in 1988 and eventually exchanged their marital vows in the presence of their families and friends on 22nd July 1989. Not long after, the two relocated to New Bern, North Carolina, where they started a family and lived until their divorce, which was made public on January 6, 2015.
Since Nicholas and Cote went their separate ways, not much has been heard about how they are fairing. Nevertheless, they’ve remained amazing parents to their kids. The bestselling author’s ex-wife is a former lending-company account executive and the woman who inspired many of Nicholas’ top romance novels.
Nicholas Sparks’ Children
Nicholas Sparks is a father of five lovely children – twin daughters Lexie Danielle Sparks and Savannah Marin Sparks, as well as sons Ryan Cote Sparks, Miles Andrew Sparks, and Landon Sparks. At the moment, information about what his kids are up to and where exactly they are since their parents divorced is not a matter of public knowledge.
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