Chuck Palahniuk Best Novel for "Survivor" and for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for "Lullaby" in 2002 and for "Haunted" in 2005. Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel "Fight Club", which also was made into a popular film of the same name. Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington, the son of Carol Adele (née Tallent) and Fred Palahniuk. He has French and Ukrainian ancestry. His paternal grandfather was Ukrainian and migrated to New York
The Notebook (novel) The Notebook (novel) The Notebook is a 1996 romantic novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks, The novel was later adapted into a popular film of the same name, in 2004. The Indian Bollywood film, "Zindagi Tere Naam," starring Mithun Chakraborty, is also based on it. This was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel. It was the third written after "The Passing" and "The Royal Murders", which he did not publish. He wrote it over a period of six months in 1994. Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks by picking the book out of her agency's slush pile and reading it. Park