Looking for Alaska

John Green is an American author, YouTuber, and podcaster, best known as the author of The Fault in Our Stars (2012), one of the best-selling young adult novels in publishing history. Born in Indianapolis in 1977, Green studied English and Religious Studies at Kenyon College and began his career as a book editor and journalist before publishing his debut novel Looking for Alaska (2005), which won the Printz Award. Green's other novels include An Abundance of Katherines (2006), Paper Towns (2008), Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010, co-authored with David Levithan), Turtles All the Way Down (2017), and The Anthropocene Reviewed (2021), his first work of adult nonfiction—a collection of essays reviewing aspects of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale. Read more →