The 21st century has seen many writers who wowed the world with their creative minds and ideas about life and other issues concerning the human race. While it is true that the older generation boasted groups of talented writers, the younger generation, to which Nicholas Sparks belongs, has also produced great authors who are changing lives through their works.

Sparks is an extraordinary writer with several international bestselling novels that are mostly about romance. However, the phenomenal author also writes screenplays. Many of Nicholas’s novels are New York Times bestsellers, while some have been adapted into film format by film producers.

Biography of Nicholas Sparks

In addition to writing, Nicholas Sparks is a film producer best known for serving as the executive producer of the 2014 American Civil War Western film, Deliverance Creek. Sparks is the second child of optometrist/assistant/homemaker Jill Emma Marie Sparks (mother) and Patrick Michael Sparks (father). The writer’s mother gave birth to him in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, and his date of birth is December 31, 1965.

Growing up, Nicholas spent his education in many cities with his family due to his father’s higher education. He is said to have lived in American cities such as California (Playa Del Rey, Inglewood), Minnesota and Watertown. He also spent a year in Grand Island, Nebraska, which is also his mother’s hometown. It was while in town that Patrick became a business professor 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 in 1966) who died of a brain tumor in 2000. Her name is Danielle Sparks. The siblings were all raised Roman Catholic, while their ethnicity is a unique mix of Irish, Czech, English and German.

Nicholas had attended high school while envit in Fair Oaks, California, where his family settled after his father became a professor at California State University in Sacramento in 1974. The writer completed high school at the Bella Vista High School in 1984 and later joined the University of Notre Dame on a full athletic scholarship. Although Sparks was admitted to the institution as a student of corporate finance, he decided to give his writing ambition much-needed attention during his early college years and ever since. he never slowed down. He then passed out with the honors of Notre Dame.

Sparks launched her writing career professionally in 1985 with the novel “The Passing” while studying at the University of Notre Dame. His groundbreaking novel titled “The Notebook” was written in 1993, while he was in Washington selling pharmaceuticals. About eleven of his works are bestsellers, others have been adapted for the cinema.

Net value

Sparks isn’t a bestselling author for nothing; he is a business regular and also has some of the most exciting romance novels in the world. A writer and film producer, this accomplished writer, born in Omaha, has an estimated net worth of $30 million.

Married, Wife and Divorce

Until 2014, Nicholas Sparks was happily married to Cathy Cote, a native of New Hampshire, New England. The two men first met over Spring Break in 1988 and finally exchanged their marriage vows in the presence of family and friends on July 22, 1989. Shortly after, they were transferred to New Bern, North Carolina. where they started a family and lived until their divorce, which was made public on January 6, 2015.

Since Nicolas and Cote separated, we haven’t heard much about their behavior. Nonetheless, they remained great parents to their children. The bestselling author’s ex-wife is a former loan company accounts manager and the woman who inspired many high-profile romance novels.

The Children of Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is a father of five children – twin daughters Lexie Danielle Sparks and Savannah Marin Sparks, as well as their sons Ryan Cote Sparks, Miles Andrew Sparks and Landon Sparks. At present, information about what her children have been up to and where exactly they have been since their parents divorced is not public knowledge.