Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He has published twenty-three novels, all New York Times bestsellers, and two nonfiction works, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in over 50 languages. Among his works are The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle, all of which, along with eight other books, have been adapted as feature films. Sparks lives in North Carolina, where many of his novels are set. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Sparks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.