Who IS John Green?

I'm sure that if I throw out the name John Green you immediately think of the scrawny writer with glasses that has created iconic stories. And I admit that I thought that too, because I never thought to go deeper into the pages of the book to see who exactly wrote this and what their meaning was for each and every word choice. In my definition of that, it included a quick Google search of "John Green" and pages beyond pages of information came flying out towards me. By that point I almost decided to chance prompts because that much reading and investigating didn't seem that appealing towards me but I pulled through for this blog post! This is what I found out...

John Green is wildly known for being an award winning author for book such as The Fault in Our Stars or Paper Towns. But before that he was born in in Indianapolis, Indiana and moved constantly from Michigan to Alabama and then Florida. In college Green had a double major in English and in Religion Studies. After college he intended to become a priest, but his career direction quickly changed after working in a hospital with ill children (where he later got the inspiration to write the Fault in our Stars). For a couple of years he then went on to write for newspaper columns and also as an editor.

The first book that Green published was Looking for Alaska, which was awarded and even thought of becoming a movie but John turned it down because of the deep connection that he wrote that book to his childhood. His second book that was published was An Abundance of Katherine's (which by the way is on my reading list!). His next book that he wrote is definitely one of my FAVORITE books of all time and is also being made into a movie very soon which is Paper Towns. Greens most famous book by far is The Fault in Our Stars which has sold over a million copies and was made into a movie, and its easy to see why. His writing just brings out emotions in people as the topic and characters touch the audiences heart (which maybe ill talk about in a future blog post *hint* *hint*). Personally I was first in line for one of the premiers and brought a tissue box that came in handy.

Some of you may or may not know what John Green is up to besides writing, but ill let you know that he is famous for more than bringing Ansel Elgort onto the big screen (thank you John for blessing us with his beautiful face). John Green and his Brother Hank are famous for a YouTube channel called VlogBrothers. Their channel reaches over 2.5 million subscribers and was originally created over a bet. Yep, that's right Hank and John had a bet that they would go one year without using text-based communication . Their way of communication with each other was though daily video blogs, or "vlogs" as they called them. They posted this on YouTube and quickly had a vast amount of followers viewing their daily vlogs. The two brothers are also the creators of VidCon, where all the You Tubers come together in a very big meet & greet. Besides VlogBrothers John is also very active on YouTube with his series called crash course history where he gives a lesson visually appealing to audiences in fun ways. One of these ill put a link to below, which is actually very interesting and helpful!

After all of my digging up into who John Green really is I've
found that this author is much more than the words that I have read on the pages.




Crash Course History WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78COTwT7nE

His Website: http://johngreenbooks.com/