![]() According to Nicholas, it will never be, but the experience began to hone his writing skills. With time on his hands and little to do but recover, Nicholas wrote his first novel, The Passing, which was never published. He accepted a full athletic scholarship to the University of Notre Dame and set a school record as part of a relay team, but he found himself hampered by an Achilles tendon injury the summer after his freshman year. Nicholas excelled in high school, graduating valedictorian of his class and earning notice as a middle-distance runner. All three Sparks children, including Nicholas' older brother, Micah, and younger sister, Danielle, were born within a three-year period, and the closeness in age created a strong bond between them. ![]() Nicholas' mother, Jill EmmaMarie (Jill), worked as both a homemaker and optometrist's assistant. ![]() His father, Patrick Michael (Mike), was a graduate student for much of Nicholas' early life, so the family lived in a number of college towns before settling in Fair Oaks, California, when Nicholas was eight. Nicholas Sparks was born in 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska, the second of three children. ![]()
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