It’s the birthday of the novelist Nicholas Sparks, born in Omaha, Nebraska (1965). He’s one of the few successful male romance novelists starting with his first novel The Notebook which he wrote as an homage to his wife’s grandparents. They had been married for sixty-two years when he met them and he realized while talking to them for the first time that they were still flirting with each other.
Nicholas Sparks said, “Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It’s one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”
NewMexiKen enjoyed Three Weeks with My Brother, Sparks’s non-fiction memoir.