John Green

Librarian Note: The Readershook database contains more than one author with this name. John Greens' first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 American Library Association Michael L. Printz Award. A 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize was his second novel, An Abundance of Katherines. His next novel, Paper Towns, is a bestseller in the New York Times, winning the Best YA Mystery Edgar Alle... n Poe Award. His latest novel, The Fault in Our Stars, received wide critical acclaim in January 2012, which was unprecedented in Greens' career. In Time Magazine and The New York Times, on NPR, and by award-winning author Markus Zusak, the praise included rave reviews. The book also took several weeks to the top of the New York Times Children's Paperback Bestseller list. Green also co-authored a book published in 2010, Will Grayson, with David Levithan. The film rights for all his books, with the exception of Will Grayson Will Grayson, were optioned to major Hollywood Studios. In 2007, John and his brother Hank were hosts of a popular internet blog, "Brotherhood 2.0," where they discussed their lives, books and current events every day for a year except weekends and holidays. They still have a video blog called "The Vlog Brothers" on the Nerdfighters website, or a direct link here.READ MORE