my favorite writer is nicholas sparks.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American romance novelist, screenwriter and producer. He has published nineteen novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office grosses. Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska and wrote his first novel, \"The Passing\", in 1985, while a student at the University of Notre Dame. His first published work came in 1990, when he co-wrote with Billy Mills \"Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding\", which sold approximated 50,000 copies in its first year. In 1993, Sparks wrote his breakthrough novel The Notebook in his spare time while selling pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C.. Two years later, his novel was discovered by literary agent Theresa Park who offered to represent him. The novel was published in October 1996 and made the \"New York Times\" best-seller list in its first week of release. Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska to Patrick Michael Sparks, a future professor of business, and Jill Emma Marie Sparks (n\u00e9e Thoene), a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "My favorite writer is Nicholas Sparks, i really like The Notebook by him, have you heard of him?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, i know he wrote the Notebook in his spare time while working as at selling pharmaceuticals."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Have you read something else from him?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I have not but I will like to, after all he has published nineteen novels and two non-fiction books."}, {"role": "user", "content": "He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, my mother is from omaha!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "yes he was born there in 1965, I have never been to Omaha or Nebraska."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The notebook novel opens with Noah Calhoun, an old man, reading to a woman in a nursing home."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Dis you enjoyed the book? I know when it was first published in 1996 it became a New York Times best-seller"}]