John Green

They have two children—son Henry Green was born on January 20, 2010, and daughter Alice Green was born on June 3, 2013. They also have a pet dog, Willy.

He loves football, and is an avid fan of Liverpool Football Club of the Premier League. He is a sponsor of English League One club AFC Wimbledon.

John Michael Green was born on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Mike and Sydney Green. Soon after his birth, his family moved to Michigan, then later to Birmingham, Alabama, and finally to Orlando, Florida. His younger brother is William Henry Hank Green II.

He attended Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, and Indian Springs School in Alabama. Green graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and Religious studies.

After his graduation, he worked as a student chaplain at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for a few months. He enrolled at the University of Chicago Divinity School, but he never attended it.

He wanted to become a priest, but his experiences at the hospital where he worked and witnessed children suffering from life-threatening diseases inspired him to become an author, and later he wrote the book ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ based on these experiences.

John Green began his career working as a publishing assistant and production editor for Booklist, a book review journal in Chicago. Besides reviewing books, he created radio essays for Chicago's public radio station and NPR's All Things Considered. During this period, he started writing the book ‘Looking for Alaska.’

Published in 2005 by Dutton Children's Books, ‘Looking for Alaska’ was his first novel. It was about teen romance inspired by his experiences at his school, Indian Springs. Paramount purchased the film rights in 2005, but even after five years no film was made. Sales of the book continued to increase over the years and in 2012, it reached The New York Times Best Seller list for children's paperbacks.

His second novel, ‘An Abundance of Katherines,’ was released in 2006. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a runner-up for the Printz Award. It is a young adult novel, about some complex equations the main character Colin uses to analyze his romantic relationships.

In 2007, he started the YouTube channel VlogBrothers with his brother, Hank Green. Over the years they launched projects and events like Project for Awesome and VidCon, and at least 11 online series, including the most popular one, Crash Course, which aims at educating high school students. As of July 2017, the VlogBrothers channel had amassed over 3 million subscribers, and more than 700 million views.

Following VlogBrothers’ inception, the brothers gained a wide reaching fanbase, which turned into a group called Nerdfighters. The group participates in a number of humanitarian efforts, like Project for Awesome, an annual charity fundraiser.

The novels ‘Looking for Alaska’ and ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ are both his major works as they became immensely popular. The latter reached the No. 1 position on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012.

His YouTube channel VlogBrothers and Crash Course for Kids have also attained much popularity, creating a huge fanbase across the globe for John Green.