Popular and best-seller American novelist and screenwriter, Nicholas Sparks has a net worth of $30 million. Born as Nicholas Charles Sparks, he accumulated his significant finances due to his success in his literary career particularly his numerous best-selling novels and their film adaptations.

Sparks’ writing career started during his college years at the University of Notre Dame where he wrote unpublished novels like The Passing and Royal Murders. His first published novel came in 1990 when he co-wrote Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding with Billy Mills. The work sold approximately 50,000 copies in its first year.

In the early 1990s, he wrote the novel, The Notebook, which became his first ever best seller under the New York Times list in its first week of release. As of now, his New York Times bestsellers counted to 19 novels and two non-fiction books. Some of these bestsellers were adapted into blockbuster movies including the following: Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook, Dear John, The Last Song, The Lucky One, Safe Haven, The Best of Me, The Longest Ride and The Choice.

As one of the world's most beloved storytellers, most of Sparks' works are notable for their North Carolina setting while the main characters usually don't experience the typical happy ending.

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