John Michael Green is an American author of young adult fiction, YouTube video blogger, historian and creator of online educational videos. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, and his most recent novel, The Fault in Our Stars debuted at numb...
Michael L. Printz Award, Edgar Award for Best Young Adult, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Young Adult Fiction, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Memoir & Autobiography, Shorty Award for Best Author, Devil and the Sea, Spirit of Now, Canyon Women
Nominations
Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Book, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Shorty Award for Best Web Series, Shorty Award for Best in Science, Shorty Award for Best in Education, Anthony Award for Best Children's /Young Adult Novel
Movies
The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Let It Snow
Star Sign
Virgo
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Trademark
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Many of his protagonists are teenagers or young adults
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Extremely fast talking voice
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Quote
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So I am sometimes held up as an example of someone who is, like, changing the publishing paradigm or whatever because I have a lot of Tumblr followers and YouTube subscribers and I can speak directly to my audience and I don't need the value-sucking middleman of bookstores and publishers, and in the future everyone is going to be like me and no one will stand between Author and Reader except possibly an E-commerce site that takes just a tiny little percentage of each transaction. Yeah, that's bullshit.
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I did not want to sell the movie rights for 'The Fault in Our Stars'. It was a very personal story for me. Also, I'd had some unhappy experiences before, and I didn't want a movie that I didn't like being made from a book that's so important to me. Everyone was like, 'Oh, it's a 'Love Story' for a new generation!' And I was like, 'That was the worst thing you could've possibly said to me'. I wanted it to be a funny movie and a sweet movie, but I also wanted it to be about asking the question, What constitutes a good life? And whether it's possible to have a good and meaningful life, even if you have a short life.
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Fact
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One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].
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Culver Creek, the fictional Alabama boarding school that Green's characters attend in his first novel, Looking for Alaska, is based on the real Alabama boarding school, Indian Springs School, from which Green graduated in 1995.
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His daughter, Alice Green, was born early in the morning of June 3, 2013.
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He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel and reached number one on a New York Times Best Seller list with his latest in January 2012.
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His son, Henry Green, was born on January 20, 2010.
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