17 Facts About Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson was born on February 16,1973 and is an American author of young adult fiction.

Maureen Johnson's published novels include series leading titles such as 13 Little Blue Envelopes, The Name of the Star, Truly Devious, and Suite Scarlett.

Maureen Johnson was born in Philadelphia and attended an all-girl Catholic preparatory high school.

Maureen Johnson graduated from the University of Delaware in 1995 with a degree in English.

Maureen Johnson later worked variously as literary manager of a Philadelphia theater company, a waitress in a theme restaurant, a secretary, a bartender in Piccadilly, and an occasional performer in New York City.

Maureen Johnson studied both writing and theatrical dramaturgy at Columbia University, where she received her MFA in Writing.

Maureen Johnson's second published novel, The Bermudez Triangle, was released in October 2004.

Maureen Johnson herself has said she considers Ginny's adventure to be "a little bit of a fairy tale," and has cited the song "Charmed Life" by Irish artist Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy for its likeness to the spirit with which the novel was written.

On November 27,2009, Maureen Johnson first became a New York Times bestselling author when Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances reached number ten on the Children's Paperback list.

Meanwhile in 2011, Maureen Johnson became the ongoing lead coordinator of LeakyCon's Lit Track programming, the literary focused experience for fans of young adult fiction more broadly, a production of Mischief Management.

In March 2014, Maureen Johnson was selected to represent the YA category for World Book Day in the United Kingdom with the first publication of her novella The Boy in the Smoke, a prequel story to the Shades of London series.

Maureen Johnson has maintained a personal website about her work and experiences as an author since 2005, with blog entries dating as far back as August of that year.

In January 2010, Maureen Johnson was acknowledged as John Green's secret sister on the popular YouTube channel VlogBrothers.

Maureen Johnson later reprised the duty after the birth of Green's second child in 2013.

In June 2016, while in conversation at 92Y in New York, co-creator Joseph Fink explained that the character of Intern Maureen was initially written in the image of Johnson, but quickly killed off, as death is a kind of tradition for most interns of the Night Vale Radio station.

Intern Maureen Johnson's continued survival has since become an ongoing joke within the stories.

Maureen Johnson provided the foreword for The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe, a collected volume of early podcast scripts.