When he was 15, he started attending Indian Springs School outside of Birmingham, Alabama, graduating in 1995. Green's father worked as the state director of The Nature Conservancy, and his mother, after being a stay-at-home mother, worked for a nonprofit called the Healthy Community Initiative. There he attended Glenridge Middle School and Lake Highland Preparatory School. Three weeks after he was born, his family moved to Michigan, then later Birmingham, Alabama, and finally to Orlando, Florida. John Michael Green was born on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Mike (born 1950) and Sydney Green (born 1952). 2.4 Established author and internet personality (2017–present).2.3.1 The Fault in Our Stars and adaptations.2.2.1 Paper Towns and collaborative works.2.2 Online and literary collaborations (2007-2011).2.1.1 Booklist magazine and Looking for Alaska.Since the mid-2010s, John Green has been a prominent supporter and fundraiser for Partners In Health in their goal of reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. John has also collaborated with his wife, Sarah Urist Green, on the video series The Art Assignment (2017–2020) and Ours Poetica (2019–present), which focus on visual art and poetry respectively. The essays were ordered chronologically through his life to give the approximate structure of a memoir. Green later adapted the essays into his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021). The Anthropocene Reviewed began in January 2018, with Green reviewing different facets of the Anthropocene on a five-star scale. Green's next two projects, Turtles All the Way Down (2017) and the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed (2018–2021), dealt more directly with his own struggles with anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorder. In 2015, the weekly comedy podcast Dear Hank & John (2015–present) debuted, co-hosted by the Green brothers. That same year, Green was included in Time magazine's list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World. The 2014 film adaptation was also a commercial and critical success, leading to several other film and television adaptations of his work. Green's next novel, The Fault in Our Stars, proved to be a massive success, creating a passionate fan base of readers and debuting at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books, remaining in the top ten for over two-and-a-half years. From 2010 to 2013, John and Hank launched several online video projects: VidCon, an annual conference for the online video community Crash Course (2011–present), a wide-ranging educational channel and Subbable, a crowdfunding platform which was purchased by Patreon in 2015. Green released three novels over the next two years: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008, with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle), his third solo novel, Paper Towns (2008), and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010, with David Levithan). That same year, they started the annual telethon-style fundraiser Project for Awesome, and John moved back to Indianapolis. Starting on January 1, 2007, John and his brother Hank launched the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel, which quickly spawned an active online-based community called Nerdfighteria that has persisted and grown over time. While living in New York City, Green published his second novel An Abundance of Katherines (2006), which became a Printz Honor book. His debut novel Looking for Alaska (2005) was awarded the 2006 Michael L. Green reconsidered his path and began working at Booklist while writing his first novel. He was deeply affected by the difficult experience, which later partially inspired The Fault in Our Stars. After graduating from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and religious studies, Green spent six months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital. Aside from being a novelist, Green is well known for his online content creation, most notably his YouTube ventures with his brother Hank Green.īorn in Indianapolis, Indiana, Green was raised in Orlando, Florida before attending boarding school outside of Birmingham, Alabama, graduating in 1995. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTube content creator, podcaster, and philanthropist.
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