John Michael Green is an American writer of YA novels and YouTube vlogger. In 2006 he won Printz Award for his first novel ("In search of Alaska") and reached the first place in the Best Seller list according to New York Times for the last one ("The Fault In Our Stars") in January, 2012.
Life and career
John Green grew up in Orlando, Florida, and then studied at the closed Indian Springs School in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2000 John graduated from Kenyon College, where received a degree on English literature and religion.
After finishing study, Green spent five months in children's hospital, working as a priest, and at that time, he was enrolled to Chicago Divinity School, which he did not graduate from. His experience with children suffering from incurable diseases inspired Jonah to write "The Fault In Our Stars".
Green lived some months in Chicago, where worked in the Booklist magazine as an assistant in the publishing house and an editor of works. At this time, John writes "In search of Alaska". He made hundreds reviews on books, generally on novels and books about Islam and Siamese twins. He also did book reviews for The New York Times Book Review and wrote for WBEZ Chicago radio station and for National Public Radio. John lived two years in New York while his wife graduated from high school.
Bibliography:
Books
2005 - Looking for Alaska
2006 - An Abundance of Katherines
2008 - Paper Towns
2010 - Will Grayson, Will grayson
2012 - The Fault in Our Stars
Short stories
2006 - "The Approximate Cost of Loving Caroline", Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork by Scott Hunt
2007 - "The Great American Morp", 21 Proms, eds. David Levithan and Daniel Ehrenhaft
2009 - "Freak the Geek", Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
2011 - "Reasons", What You Wish For
2012 - Double on Call and Other Short Stories