94 Facts About John Green

John Michael Green was born on August 24,1977 and is an American author, YouTuber, podcaster, and philanthropist.

John Green's books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars, which is one of the best-selling books of all time.

John Green is well known for his work in online video, most notably his YouTube ventures with his brother Hank John Green.

John Green attended Kenyon College, graduating with a double major in English and religious studies in 2000.

John Green then spent six months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital.

John Green reconsidered his path and began working at Booklist in Chicago while writing his first novel.

John Green moved back to Indianapolis in 2007, and published three novels over the next three years: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances ; his third solo novel, Paper Towns ; and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

That same year, John Green was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

The Anthropocene Reviewed began as a podcast in January 2018, with John Green reviewing different facets of the Anthropocene on a five-star scale.

Since the mid-2010s, John Green has been a prominent supporter, fundraiser, and later trustee for Partners In Health and their goal of reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone.

John Michael Green was born on August 24,1977, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Mike and Sydney Green.

John Green's father worked as the executive director of The Nature Conservancy of Florida, and his mother, after being a stay-at-home mother, worked for a nonprofit called the Healthy Community Initiative.

John Green has spoken about being bullied during high school and how it made life as a teenager miserable for him.

John Green enrolled at Kenyon College in 1995 and graduated with a double major in English and religious studies in 2000.

John Green intended to become an Episcopal priest, but the traumatic experiences of working in a hospital with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses and injuries made him reconsider his path.

In 2001, John Green was hired as an editorial assistant at the book review journal Booklist, later becoming a production editor.

John Green wrote radio essays for NPR's All Things Considered and Chicago's public radio station WBEZ.

John Green wrote essays for WBEZ after beginning an email correspondence with Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who became a close friend and mentor.

John Green set a deadline for Green to present her with a draft of his first book, which Green failed to present to her twice over.

John Green lived with his parents for a brief time while seeing a psychiatrist and going on medication.

John Green wrote the novel divided into "before" and "after" the character Alaska's death, with chapters denoted through the number of days before or after the death.

John Green presented the first draft to Cooper, who served as a mentor through the following two versions.

John Green left his job at Booklist after receiving the Printz Award.

John Green moved to the Upper West Side in New York City in 2005 while his then-fiancee Sarah Urist John Green attended graduate school at Columbia University.

John Green worked at Mental Floss magazine while he continued his second novel, having already finished a first draft while living in Chicago.

John Green critiqued books for The New York Times Book Review.

John Green began writing his third solo novel while still living in New York.

John Green moved back to Indianapolis in June 2007 when Sarah began a position as a curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

John Green wrote the introduction to Earl's biography and has stated that Earl was an inspiration for the main character Hazel in The Fault in Our Stars.

Hank Green and Alan Lastufka co-founded DFTBA Records in 2008, with John Green later becoming a co-owner.

John Green had announced in August 2009 he was writing a new book titled The Sequel.

John Green was inspired by his friendship with Esther Earl, as well as his time working as a student chaplain in a children's hospital.

John Green himself saw a significant increase in his fame, with the Indianapolis Business Journal noting that he had much more "visibility and presence in his fans' lives" than other contemporaneous authors with equal or greater book sales.

John Green appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in March 2013.

John Green stated his anxiety leading up to the television interview prevented him from getting work done for weeks before.

In late 2013, John Green stated that he was writing a new book with the working title The Racket.

John Green sold 5,000 words of a rough draft of the work during that years Project for Awesome.

That same year, John Green hired long-time Nerdfighter Rosianna Halse Rojas as his executive assistant.

John Green filmed a cameo role for the movie that was not included in the final cut of the film.

John Green appeared on The Colbert Report to promote the movie's release in June 2014.

John Green was included in Time magazine's 2014 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

John Green served as an executive producer for the movie and entered into a first-look production deal with the studio behind the film, Fox 2000, alongside his producing partner Rojas.

In 2016, John Green announced that Fox 2000 would be making a movie about the formation of AFC Wimbledon, a soccer team that he supports, and he would serve as a producer.

John Green has hosted several of the series, including the first on world history, which he co-wrote with his high school history teacher, Raoul Meyer.

Patreon added Subbable's creators into its fold and the John Green brothers became advisors at Patreon.

From 2013 to 2018, John Green was one of the hosts of the YouTube channel for the magazine Mental Floss, for whom he had worked when in New York.

John Green presented "The List Show" in which he listed off interesting facts centered on one particular subject.

On February 20,2014, Sarah Urist John Green launched The Art Assignment, a PBS and Complexly video series.

John Green serves as the co-founder and strategic advisor for the company.

John Green gave commencement speeches at Butler University in 2013 and at his alma mater Kenyon College in May 2016.

In January 2016, John Green was named to the Forum of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum.

John Green attended the annual meeting of the WEF in Davos, Switzerland that year.

In February 2016, John Green visited Jordan to meet with Syrian refugees with the United Nations Human Rights Council.

John Green has often acted as an advocate for refugees, stating that "for those of you who share my faith, Jesus is awfully unambiguous about the poor, shelterless, and imprisoned".

In November 2014, amidst the intense success of The Fault in Our Stars, John Green wrote on his Tumblr page that he was not working on his previously announced next project, The Racket, anymore, but was working on something else with a different title.

In September 2015, John Green announced that he would be taking a break from social media to focus on writing his next book.

Around this time, John Green experienced a period of severe anxiety, partly due to the perceived burden to follow up the massive success of The Fault in Our Stars.

In May 2018, John Green was interviewed by then-quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, Andrew Luck, after Turtles All the Way Down was named a selection for the Andrew Luck Book Club.

In January 2018, John Green launched The Anthropocene Reviewed, a solo podcast where he reviews different facets of the Anthropocene, the epoch that includes significant human impact on the environment, on a five-star scale.

Episodes typically contained John Green reviewing two topics, accompanied by stories on how they have impacted his life.

John Green adapted the essays into a book, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, which was published by Dutton Penguin on May 18,2021.

John Green wrote about living through the COVID-19 pandemic in many of the essays.

John Green wrote a review of the experience on the final signed page.

John Green subsequently ended the podcast in August 2021 after 36 episodes.

In May 2021, Green hosted a virtual book tour for The Anthropocene Reviewed, with guests Clint Smith, Latif Nasser, Sarah Urist Green, Hank Green, and Ashley C Ford making appearances at the various shows.

John Green gave a keynote address at the university's annual fall convocation.

John Green had sold the film the rights for Looking for Alaska in 2005 to Paramount, which hired Josh Schwartz as writer and director.

However, after five years with no progress on the project, John Green told fans that, while he "desperately loved" the screenplay, there seemed to be little interest at Paramount.

In 2017, John Green authorized a stage play adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars.

In December 2017, John Green announced that a film adaptation of Turtles All The Way Down was in development by Fox 2000 and Temple Hill Productions.

In May 2018, John Green confirmed that the film adaptation would be written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, the screenwriters for Love, Simon.

In October 2018, John Green founded the Life's Library book club with Rosianna Halse Rojas.

John and Sarah Urist Green visited Sierra Leone in April 2019 after John was inspired by a December 2017 profile in The New Yorker on PIH co-founder Ophelia Dahl.

In October 2019, John Green announced that he, Hank, and their families would be donating $6.5 million to Sierra Leone's branch of Partners In Health, as part of an initiative to raise $25 million over the following five years.

In September 2021, John Green continued his advocacy for refugees, writing an op-ed in The Independent on the need for education for refugee children.

John Green wrote a tribute to Farmer for The Washington Post.

John Green became a member of the board of trustees for Partners in Health in 2022.

On January 1,2017, John Green began a YouTube series titled "100 Days" in collaboration with his friend Chris Waters.

In December 2022, John Green left Twitter in response to the policy changes made after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter.

In March 2019, John Green moderated a discussion with former First Lady Michelle Obama on her memoir Becoming as part of a YouTube-sponsored event titled "BookTube".

John Green gave a virtual commencement address to all graduates in May 2020 during the beginning months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In October 2022, John Green gave the opening lecture at Harvard University's 2022 William Belden Noble Lecture series, titled "How the World Ends".

All of John Green's book have received positive critical reception and appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.

John Green's books have been translated into 55 languages with more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars, which is one of the best-selling books of all time.

John Green himself voiced his disagreement with the idea that he is single-handedly responsible for launching or promoting any one individual's career.

John Green has received criticism for his perceived writing of "Manic Pixie Dream Girls", a term coined by Nathan Rabin to describe a female character that, "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures".

Paper Towns and the character of Margo Roth Spiegelman have often been cited as a deconstruction of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" trope, and John Green has stated he specifically wrote her as such.

John Green has readily discussed what he believes to be flaws in his novels when he looked at them in retrospect.

Several of John Green's books have been the subject of book banning attempts.

In September 2022, a group of parents attempted to ban the novel from all Orange County, Florida school libraries, a district John Green had attended as a child.

John Green was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and has lived there since 2007.

John Green is an Episcopalian Christian, and was married in a Catholic church.

John Green drove the pace car at the 2016 Grand Prix of Indianapolis, and was honorary co-chairman of the 500 Festival Host Committee that year.

John Green is a supporter of the English football club Liverpool FC of the Premier League and an official sponsor of the English League Two club AFC Wimbledon.