Nicholas Sparks is the author of " A walk to remember". He is a novelist and a screenwriter. He was born December. 31/1965. Nicholas has published seventeen novels and made eight of them movies. He has five children, three sons and twin daughters.He has a brother, a sister and is married to Cathy Sparks. The movies that he has out are Safe Haven, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, The Last Song, The Lucky One, Dear John, Nights is Rodanthe, and Message in a Bottle. Out of all the novels he has written it is said that an estimate of eighty million books have been sold. His first novel was " The Notebook", published at the age of twenty-eight.