Looking For Alaska By John Green

Ever read or heard of the books The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns? You probably already have heard or read at least one if not some of them. These books are all written by the New York Times bestselling author, John Green. Green is an author of Young Adult fiction and romance. He is also a well-known video blogger on Youtube. John Michael Green was born on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Green mostly moved around with his family—from Indiana, to Alabama, to Florida, and later to Ohio. He graduated from Kenyon College in the year 2001, completing two sets of degrees in English and Religious studies. Afterwards, Green worked at Nationwide’s Children Hospital, as a student preacher

Green chose the main setting of the book to be in Alabama, because the high school he was attending was just outside of it. Looking for Alaska won the Michael L. Printz Award and was also in the American Library Association’s top 10 list of books for young adults. The book later got into The New York Times Best Seller list in 2012. Green’s second novel was An Abundance of Katherines. When asked what inspired

Green to write it, he responded that he was really fixated with the idea of why people are so obsessed with fame, notoriety, and leaving a legacy; “So that was part of it. Also, at some point in your adolescence you become aware that you are not quite so special as you’ve been led to believe, and this is a pretty difficult thing to reconcile, and I wanted to write about a young man who was experiencing that in the most extreme way possible.

Also, I wanted to write a book about getting dumped, because I’d just been dumped when I decided to write the book. But then I started dating the woman who is now my wife very early in the process of writing the book, so I had to write this story of a bitter, angry guy railing against his exes while I myself was falling in love.” An Abundance of Katherines made it as a runner-up for the Printz Award, but eventually made it as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book