John Green Biography

In America we are very fortunate to have many prolific authors. John Green can be affiliated with this group. Between growing up bullied in school, going on to write multiple books, and becoming an active social media leader; it’s easy to say he has been exceptionally successful. John Green was born on August 24th, 1977. He grew up in Indiana, Indianapolis but moved a lot throughout his childhood. He attended Indian Spring School where he claims he was harshly bullied during his teen years. After high school he furthered his education at Kenyon College and graduated in 2000 with a major in Religion and English. Originally he wanted to become an episcopal priest. He worked at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus for a short amount of time but stopped after he realized he couldn’t watch children with life-threatening illnesses pass. Instead he used this experience as inspiration for his books. Green then moved onto work for a book review company called, “Booklist”, where he reviewed fiction and literary books. By this time he was doing multiple odd jobs involving books in New York …show more content…
In 2012 John Green and his brother, Hank Green, started a series of short, educational videos that they post on youtube called, “Crash Course.” Since then they have reached a massive 5,957,327 subscribers and are still growing. There fanbase. Who identify themselves as’ “nerdfighters,” have helped spark and promote a number of beneficial project including Project for Awesome. Project for Awesome was founded in 2007. The idea behind it was people upload videos to youtube talking about there favorite charity. The hope was that these charities would then gain more awareness. In 2015 the project raised over a million dollars. Along with his charity work Green also signed a production deal with Fox 2000 and helped produce the movie’ “Paper Towns,” based off of his bestselling