John Green
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born
August 24, 1977
gender
male
place of birth
Indianapolis, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Young Adult
influences
J.D Salinger, Herman Melville, Scott F. Fitzgerald,
about this author
John Green's 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, was a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a New York Times bestseller. He is also coauthoring a book with David Levithan that will be released in 2009.
In 2007, John and his brother Hank were the hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except for weekends and holidays. They still keep a video...more
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"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself."
— John Green
— John Green
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)
"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)
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| Pick-a-Shelf: Your Reads for January | 72 | 219 | Jan 27, 2009 04:26AM | |
| Pick-a-Shelf: Young Adult Books Read in January | 63 | 216 | Feb 24, 2009 12:51PM | |
| Love2Read: May Book | 37 | 7 | May 10, 2009 07:55PM | |
| Wild Things: YA G...: June Winners: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and The Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly | 126 | 150 | Jun 08, 2009 01:20PM | |
| YA Book Club: Putting Together a Library for Incarcerated Teens | 26 | 510 | Jul 30, 2009 05:54PM | |
| SciFi and Fantasy...: What am I also reading in July | 48 | 165 | Jul 31, 2009 07:55AM | |
| The Book Challenge: 'Variety Is The Spice Of Life' Challenge | 62 | 511 | Aug 04, 2009 05:41PM | |
| The Book Challenge: Jennifer's 2009 Book Challenge | 19 | 213 | Sep 01, 2009 03:42PM |
