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Sparks is a sort of national sweetheart -- a good-looking family man who writes heart-tugging novels that rarely fail to elicit tears or book sales. His wildly popular The Notebook kicked off a steady string of quietly triumphant love stories.
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Fact File
| Name:
Nicholas Sparks
Current Home:
New Bern, North Carolina
Date of Birth:
December 31, 1965
Place of Birth:
Omaha, Nebraska
| | Education:
B.A. in finance, University of Notre Dame, 1988
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| | The Notebook
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Nicholas Sparks, Bobbie Kalman
Suckers for romance had no chance of resisting this 1996 book, Sparks' breakout title. An adult fairy tale of love delayed and then consummated, The Notebook is a tearjerker spanning 60 years, with a bittersweet ending.
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Sparks Recommends
| In his weekly web site updates, Sparks -- a voracious reader -- sometimes gives other authors a plug. Like many readers, he had high praise for Alice Sebold's debut novel The Lovely Bones: "[It's] a terrific read and is worthy of all the acclaim that it's receiving.... There were numerous sentences and paragraphs that I found myself rereading, not for lack of clarity, but because the author did something I thought I was amazing," he wrote. Also on his site, Sparks makes one recommendation for each gender, though he doesn't elaborate: Gates of Fire for men, Handyman for women.
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