Nicholas Sparks

(1965- ) born at Omaha, lived in Grand Island. Author, known for publishing eight romance novels for a popular audience since the mid-1990s, all bestsellers and translated into more than 35 languages, and three adapted for films, he has also co-authored two non-fiction works, one a memoir; his novel The Notebook received a book-of-the-year nomination in 1997 from American Booksellers Association. Consult Current Biography (2001) 511-514 and Contemporary Authors, Vol 192 (Gale, 2002) 434-437 and Omaha Sunday World Herald, April 18, 2004, p. AT-7 and October 2, 2005, p. AT-10.

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