John Green. Sound familiar? You may have heard of him, or some of his best selling novels such as: The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, and An Abundance of Katherines.
Either way, although his name is well known, there are still a lot of things that many people do not know about this brilliant author.
Let's start off with the basic information.
Green was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 24, 1977.
He has been married to Sarah Urist since 2006, and they have two children, Henry and Alice.
Green graduated from Kenyon College with a double major in English and Religion Studies.
He planned on becoming a priest, but later decided to become an author.
Green's first novel was Looking for Alaska, and it was awarded the annual Miachel L. Printz Award by the American Library Association.
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| John and Sarah on their wedding day |
Have you heard of VidCon?
If you have, the Green brothers were the ones who created it! If you aren't familiar with what VidCon is, it's essentially a multi-genre online video conference/convention where online video viewers and content creators can gather together. Thousands of people attend every year to meet Youtubers and other content creators.
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| Entrance to VidCon |
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| VidCon 2014 crowd |
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| John Green and Youtuber, Finn Harries, at VidCon |
The movie, Paper Towns, based off Green's book is coming out on July 24th. It stars Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne. This is the second movie that has been based off Green's book, (the first being The Fault in Our Stars). To be honest, I wasn't a big fan of Paper Towns, but I might watch the movie just for kicks :-)
Alright, that wraps up this post. I hope you learned something new about John Green from reading this!
