Nicholas Sparks, By Nicholas Sparks

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Reading saves the brain from Alzheimer’s disease, decrease stress levels, encourage positivity, and is known to be the ‘muscles’ of memory. An author that has given youth today an ‘exercise’ for their eyes is Nicholas Sparks. Nicholas Sparks is an accomplished author and best-seller who has encouraged young adults to read; Sparks has overcome adversity and has used writing as an outlet, making him an admired storyteller.
Nicholas Charles Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska to Patrick Sparks, a college professor, and his wife Jill, a homemaker. In his early childhood, Sparks spent his life moving around frequently while his father finished up his graduate work. First, they lived in Minnesota, Los Angeles, Grand Island, Nebraska, and finally Fair Oaks, California where the Sparks’ made a permanent home. As valedictorian, Nicholas went on to graduate high school there in 1984.
College brought Sparks to Indiana and the University of Notre Dame which had offered the athletic Sparks a track scholarship. His freshman year, in 1985, Sparks was a part of a relay team setting a record, however the season didn’t end well for Sparks. An Achilles tendon injury slowed things down for the future author, and forced him to spend the summer recovering. During his recovery time, his business major pushed him to take up a writing class. In the summer Sparks penciled his first novel; a book that has never been published.
In 1988, the writer graduated college with honors, after meeting Catherine Cote, a New Hampshire girl, on Spring Break. A year later, the two were married. Six weeks after, disaster struck Sparks’ family when Nicholas’ mother was killed in a horseback accident. Nicholas and Catherine moved to S...

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...ograms, projects and charities.
Sparks started the inaugural Nicholas Sparks Celebrity Family Weekend and Golf Tournament in New Bern, North Carolina, which was held April 19-22, 2012. This was launched to set aside a weekend that would be devoted to raising awareness and funds for the foundation. This foundation has hosted stars from music, sports, and movies and television, for a full calendar of events, raising over five hundred thousand dollars.
Nicholas Sparks is a beloved author for the world. He is best known for his ability to pull at heartstrings of people around the world with his romantic tragedies that has a hint of his own reality in his story. Nicholas Sparks is an accomplished author and a best seller who has encouraged young adults to read; Nicholas has overcome adversity and has used writing as an outlet making him an admired storyteller.

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