John Green Biography

BACKGROUND ON AUTHOR

A biography of John Green on the website famousauthors.com tells how Green went to a preparatory school in his beginning years of education. He was never one of the “popular kids” and he was bullied by people who thought very highly of themselves. Green later attended Kenyon College and received degrees for English and Religious studies. After college, he worked in a children’s hospital. The time he spent with the children sparked him to become a writer. He got his first job in the business writing book reviews as a publishing assistant. While working as an assistant he started writing his first book, Looking for Alaska. The biography explains how his inspiration for the book came from the years he spent in school and there are several similarities in the book and his life in school.

GLIMPSE OF BOOK

He meets his new roommate who prefers to be called the Colonel, although his real name is Chip. The Colonel has a friend named Alaska who Miles thinks is very attractive. They also have another friend named Takumi. The Colonel, Alaska, Takumi and Miles become pretty good friends who love to get into mischief but they never get caught. They continue to go to class and hang out for most of the year until the accident. The accident is how Alaska died. All the friends were hanging out one night until Alaska got a phone call which caused her to run out of the room. They didn’t see each other the rest of the night but the next morning there was an assembly that revealed that Alaska was in a fatal car accident. The second half of the book is about the guys trying to find out how they let Alaska die. They realize the death may have been a suicide rather than an accident. In the end, Miles believes that Alaska committed suicide while on her way to deliver flowers to her mother's