![]() ![]() In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in the 4×400 meters, as well as US High School National Records in the 800 Medley and 1600 Medley. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. He co-founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. ![]() The Notebook has also been adapted into a musical, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson. His twenty-third novel, Dreamland, was published on September 20, 2022.įilm adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), Two by Two (2016), Every Breath (2018), The Return (2020), and The Wish (2021) as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 105 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 75 million copies in the United States alone. Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. The title for the novel was chosen by Theresa Park, Nicholas's agent? One of the poems by Walt Whitman quoted in the novel is entitled "To a Common Prostitute?" The Notebook was only the third novel in recent history to spend over a year as a hardcover best-seller? Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments, and fundamental changes that affect us all. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just beginning. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. ![]()
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