Special thanks to _Ashiee_ for the recommendation!
❝Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.❞
-- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
John Michael Green is an American writer in young adult fiction, recently popular for his fourth solo novel, The Fault in Our Stars, and addition stories that focus on mental health. Green was born on August 24, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended his early education from Lake Highland Preparatory School and Indian Springs School. Later on, he earned a double graduation degrees in English and Religious Studies from Kenyon College.
After he graduated, Green spent five months working as a student chaplain at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He intended to become an Episcopal priest, but his experiences of working in a hospital with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses inspired him to be an author, and later to write The Fault in Our Stars.
Instead he worked for a book review journal Booklist as a publishing assistant and production editor while writing his first book, Looking for Alaska. Green's debut novel was published in 2005; it won the annul Michael L. Printz Award by the American Library Association.
To this day, Green has published eight stories, including one non-fiction: Looking for Alaska (2005), An Abundance of Katherines (2006), Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008), Paper Towns (2008), Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010), The Fault in Our Stars (2012), Turtles All the Way Down (2017), and The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Plant (2021).
Discussion Questions:
The theme of grief, mental health, and psychological influences are shown through these characters. How do these themes connect to the readers? And to writers as well?
In The Fault in Our Stars, which scene or chapter do you remember the most? Even if you haven't read the book in awhile?
John Green has many of his stories adapted to movies or television shows. Which one did you enjoy the most with the adaptation?
If you met John Green, what question would you ask him?
Always open to additional questions and comments on about John Green and his works.
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