Thursday, January 15, 2015

About John Green: The Fault in our stars



I am reading the book fault in our stars by John Green. John Green is an author of young adult fiction and a YouTube blogger. He is also a #1 Best Selling author on the New York Times Bestseller list. He was born on August 24, 1977 in Indianapolis,Indiana. He grew up in Florida. He graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and Religious Studies. Green lived for several years in Chicago, where he worked for the book review journal Booklist as a publishing assistant and production editor while writing Looking for Alaska. While there, he reviewed hundreds of books, particularly literary fiction and books about Islam or conjoined twins. He has also critiqued books for the New York Times Book Review and written for National Public Radio's All Things Considered and WBEZ, Chicago's public radio station. He lived in New York City for two years while his wife attended graduate school. 
                 John Green's first novel was Looking for Alaska (based on his own boarding school experience) and won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Library Association, and made the ALA 2005 Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults. His second novel, was An Abundance of Katherines , and was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and may also be made into a movie in the future.Green's third novel, Paper Towns , debuted at number 5 on the New York Times bestseller list for children's books, and the movie rights to Paper Towns have been optioned, with Green hired to write the screenplay. Paper Towns was awarded the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel and the 2010 Corine Literature Prize.
                    

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