Bibliography

  » The Notebook series read online

  » Two By Two

  » See Me

  » The Longest Ride

  » The Notebook (The Notebook #1)

  » The Wedding (The Notebook #2)

  » A Walk To Remember

  » Dear John

  » The Last Song

  » The Lucky One

  » Safe Haven

  » Message in a Bottle

  » Nights in Rodanthe

  » The Rescue

  » The Guardian

  » A Bend in the Road

  » The Choice

  » True Believer

  » Three Weeks With My Brother

  » At First Sight

  » The Best of Me

About The Author

As a child, Nicholas Sparks 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.
He and his wife Catherine, who met on spring break in 1988, were married in July, 1989. While living in Sacramento, he wrote his second novel that same year, though again, it wasn't published. He worked a variety of jobs over the next three years, including real estate appraisal, waiting tables, selling dental products by phone, and started his own small manufacturing business which struggled from the beginning. In 1990, he collaborated on a book with Billy Mills, the Olympic Gold Medalist and it was published by Feather Publishing before later being picked up by Random House. (It was recently re-issued by Hay House Books.) Though it received scant publicity, sales topped 50,000 copies in the first year of release.