John Green

American · b. 1977

John Green was a chaplain at a children's hospital before he was YA's defining voice — Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars, written after the death of sixteen-year-old fan Esther Earl and dedicated to her. Half of the vlogbrothers and founder of nerdfighteria, he has turned a fandom into a philanthropy machine and tuberculosis into a beatable enemy.