John Green

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Does John Green smoke? Yes [10]The New Yorker.Does John Green drink alcohol? Yes [11]The New Yorker.John Green is an American author and a YouTube content creator. He became famous after his young adult fiction debut book The Fault in Our Stars which got published in 2012. The book was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 130 weeks and was also proclaimed as one of the top fiction books of 2012 by TIME Magazine. It was also one of the top ten books in the US Today in 2012 and was translated into 46 languages. In 2014, the book was adapted into a Hollywood movie of the same title. The movie became very popular and won many awards. Later, the book was also adapted into a Bollywood movie titled Dil Bechara; starring late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.He is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, the U.S., but his family moved to Orlando, Florida when John was 3 weeks old. According to John, while growing up in Indianapolis, he worked for a local non-profit organisation, Healthy Community Initiative, along with his brother, Hank, and mother, Sydney. He attended three different schools; Glenridge Middle School, Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, and a private school Indian Springs School Alabama, Pelham, AL, USA (1995 Batch). He was bullied during his school days by his classmates. [12]Orlando Sentinel John Greens Instagram post about his re-visit to one of his schools.Although John has become an established author, earlier, he wanted to become an Episcopalian minister.John Greens literary influences during his college days were Gary Paulsens novel Hatchet, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and Ann Martins Babysitters Club books, which are based on young girls.He initially worked for Booklist (a publication of the American Library Association) in Chicago as a production editor for many years. During this job, he worked on his book Looking For Alaska (2005), which was later adapted into a mini-series with 8 episodes of the same title. This book also won the prestigious Michael L Printz Award in 2006. In 2005, it also won the Teen Book of the year at the Childrens Choice Book Awards and Indiana National Author Award. [14]Book Series in Order I spent a long time with my mentor and editor at Booklist, Ilene Cooper, writing and re-writing drafts of Looking for Alaska. It was three years of that. Just writing and re-writing and re-writing. And she did know someone at Dutton that she thought would be interested in the book. But she really wanted the manuscript to be something that she felt like she could say I like this, but also that she thought that the publisher would. Sent it to the publisher. It sat for a long time. It sat for six months. I guess there were a lot of conversations internally about the various strengths and weaknesses of it. And then one day I got a call, and yeah.During his job at Booklist Magazine, he also wrote for National Public Radios show All Things Considered and for Chicago Public Radio Stations show WBEZ 91.5 FM.He has reviewed many books during his job; at Booklist Magazine, his special interests were literary fiction and books about Islam and conjoined twins. His book reviews and criticisms have also been published in The New York Times Books Review.