John Green (author)
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| Born | August 24, 1977 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
| Occupation | Young Adult Fiction writer |
John Michael Green (b. August 24, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a novelist whose books target audience is young adults. His first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association. The film rights to Looking for Alaska were purchased by Paramount in 2005. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines (2006), was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and will also be made into a movie in the near future. He has finished his new novel Paper Towns and it will be published in the fall of 2008.[1]
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[edit] Early life and career
Green attended Indian Springs School, a boarding and day school outside of Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and Religious Studies. The idea for his book Looking for Alaska came about from two students being in similar circumstances while at Indian Springs.[2]
John lived for several years after that in Chicago as well as New York City, where he worked for Booklist Magazine, a book review journal. While there, he reviewed hundreds of books of all varieties, his reviewing specialties included the literary fiction, books about Islam, and books about conjoined twins. John's book criticism has also appeared in The New York Times Books Review. John has also written for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and for Chicago's public radio station, WBEZ.[3]
[edit] Personal life
Green currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife, Sarah (also known as "The Yeti" in his video blogs). According to his vlog entry of May 16, Green was born there, but his family moved three weeks after his birth. He has also lived in Birmingham, Alabama; East Lansing, Michigan; Florida; Chicago, Illinois, and New York City.[4]
[edit] Brotherhood 2.0 project
John and his brother Hank Green run a video blog project called Brotherhood 2.0. The original project ran from January 1 to December 31, 2007, with the premise that the brothers would cease all text-based ("textual") communication for the year and instead converse by video blogs, made available to the public via YouTube and on their website.[5] The vlogs have several recurring themes, including "Nerdfighters," the official name for their more dedicated viewers, based on a video game John saw at an airport; the Foundation to Decrease WorldSuck, Hank and John's paypal-oriented "foundation" that vows to "decrease worldsuck" by giving the money donated to worthy causes; the Evil Baby Orphanage, a proposal to use a time machine to kidnap historical despots in infancy and pre-habilitate them at a mountain retreat; and amusing songs posted by Hank on a regular basis.[6] In the December 31, 2007 video, it was revealed that the brothers had decided not to stop vlogging even though the project had ended.[7] John and Hank now continue to post vlogs, though not daily, on their Youtube account, vlogbrothers.[8]
[edit] Publications
[edit] Books
- Looking for Alaska (2005)
- An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
- Paper Towns (to be released October 16, 2008)
[edit] Short stories
- "The Approximate Cost of Loving Caroline" (part of Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork, Scott Hunt, 2006)
- "The Great American Morp" (part of the 21 Proms anthology edited by David Levithan and Daniel Ehrenhaft, 2007)
[edit] References
- ^ Amazon listing
- ^ John Green: Author of An Abundance of Katherines and Looking for Alaska
- ^ John Green: Author of An Abundance of Katherines and Looking for Alaska
- ^ Local politics, web money
- ^ http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119092762951941696.html WSJ, Local Politics, Web Money (Sept. 28, 2007)
- ^ New West Missoula, A Year of Sincerity and Humor with Brotherhood 2.0 (Dec. 30, 2007)
- ^ NPR, All Things Considered, Brothers Reconnect Using Video Blogging (Jan. 20, 2008)
- ^ YouTube - vlogbrothers's Channel
