John Green

When The Fault in Our Stars premiered on June 2, 2014, over 1,200 enthusiastic fans greeted author John Green, even though he had neither written the screenplay nor acted in the film. The novel, his fifth, had sold more than 7 million copies, and that same year Time magazine named him to its list of the 100 Most Influential People. His popularity with teenagers predated the film. In 2007, after publishing his first two young adult novels, he and his brother Hank Green launched the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers as a communication experiment. Their video blogs drew a large community of followers who call themselves Nerdfighters, and the channel now has more than 2 million subscribers.

This biography traces John's path from a shy student to a skilled social media communicator and bestselling young adult writer. It shows how his offbeat personality and creative ability became a formula that has won him fans across the globe.