Nicholas Charles Sparks books is an american writer that writes some of the most beautiful love stories ever.
Agreed. He has wrote A walk to Remember and The Notebook
He is from Omaha, Nebraska but most of his stories seem to take place near the sea. Strange!
It could be due to that "longing for the sea" that you hear people talk about. I think in some of his books it almost required to get the right feeling.
He actually wrote his first book "The Passing", in 1985, while a student at the University of Notre 
I didn't know that. I was still pretty young at that point and it wasnt till my 20s that those other books were turned into movies and I learned about them.
while a student at the University of Notre Dame. His first published work came in 1990, when he co-wrote with Billy Mills "Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding", which sold approximately 50,000 copies in its first year. In 1993, Sparks wrote his breakthrough novel "The Notebook" in his spare time while selling pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C.. Two years later, his novel was discovered by literary agent Theresa Park who offered to represent him. The novel was published in October 1996
Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American romance novelist and screenwriter. He has published twenty novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office grosses. His novels feature stories of tragic love with happy endings and Christian values.
Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska and wrote his first novel, "The Passing", in 1985,