John Green

If you look on my sidebar, you will hopefully see 4 videos with guys named Hank and John Green. John Green is the guy that is my favorite. He is, in my opinion, one of the most talented authors for young adults right now. His stories captivate even me. Anyways, I'll probably write a blog about some of his books later. For now I'll just focus on him as a person.


John Green is the New York Time is bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns. He is also cowrote the book Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was received numerous awards such as the Michael L. Printz Award in 2006, Edgar Award winner of 2009, and has also twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His books have been published in more than a dozen languages as well.

In 2007, John and his brother Hank began to post videos on YouTube. The videos created a group of people called nerdfighters who “fight for intellectualism and to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck.” They encouraged their nerdfighters to do good things and they have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight poverty in the developing world and they also planted thousands of trees around the world in May 2010 to celebrate Hank’s 30th birthday. They still continue to upload 3 videos a week to their Vlog (video blog for those who don’t know) VlogBrothers. Their videos have been viewed more than 75 million times, and their channel is one of the most popular in the history of online video. He is also an active Twitter user with more than 1.1 million followers. He also comes from Orlando, Florida originally but now lives with his wife and son in Indianapolis, Indiana.