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