Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is easy to mock and impossible to ignore. Twenty-four novels and well over 130 million copies sold is not luck; it is a craftsman who knows exactly what readers ache for. What fascinates me is the contrast: a Notre Dame athlete who ran track and trained in taekwondo, yet writes some of the most tender, tear-soaked romances in modern publishing. That tells me sentiment and discipline are not opposites. You can dismiss his formula, but I respect anyone who connects with that many hearts across fifty languages and keeps showing up to do it again.

Name (English)

Nicholas Sparks

Name (Japanese)

ニコラス・スパークス

Reading

にこらす・すぱーくす

Born

December 31, 1965 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

Origin

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Occupation

novelist / taekwondo athlete / writer / athletics competitor / screenwriter

High school

Bella Vista High School

University

University of Notre Dame

• Official sitehttps://www.nicholassparks.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Sparks
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219377

Tags

• Nebraska
• novelist
• taekwondo athlete
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.