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.
That wasn't his first published book. His first published book was  "Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding", which sold approximated 50,000 copies in its first year. Personally I just watch the movies, 
It's sad to say but sometimes it is much easier to watch the films. It seems like he has had a great and long career. I'm sure it hasn't been easy.
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,
his life. At the start of the series, he encounters a mysterious and beautiful girl on the roof of his middle school, but does not remember anything about her other than that she wears strawberry-print panties. She leaves before he can talk to her, but he finds a notebook nearby, belonging to Aya Toujou, an ordinary-looking glasses-wearing girl who is a gifted writer. The two become friends with the common ambition of turning great stories into movies. Thinking that Tsukasa Nishino, the most popular