John Green
From Omnictionary
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| Born: | John Michael Green August 24, 1977 (age 31) Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
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| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Books: | Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Let It Snow, Paper Towns |
| Website: | http://www.sparksflyup.com |
| Spouse: | Sarah Urist Green |
| Sibling: | Hank Green(brother, half of B2.0) |
- The above is mostly (c) Wikipedia
John Green is an American young adult novelist, a New York Times Best Selling Author, and is married to the contemporary art curator Sarah Green, known in Nerdfighteria as the Yeti.
Although it is his brainchild, his involvement in Omnictionary is unclear.
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Biography
John Green was born in Indianapolis, Indiana (where he now lives with his wife, Sarah Urist Green, who is also known as the Yeti for her reluctance to appear on camera) on August 24, 1977. He grew up in Florida before attending a boarding school, Indian Springs School, in Alabama; he has been cited saying that this high school bears much physical resemblance to Culver Creek High School, the most predominant setting of his first novel, Looking for Alaska. His brother is Hank Green, who is known to take many different physical forms, but only one brand of awesome, and has said that his parents are "nerds," simultaneously thanking and blaming them for his present-day self-proclaimed nerdiness.
He graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in Religious Studies and English. After this he worked for six months as a children's chaplain in a hospital, an experience which inspired his first novel, Looking for Alaska. After that he worked for a magazine called Booklist writing book reviews while he lived in Chicago, Illinois.
He has been dumped by someone(defined by him as having held someone's hand and then wanting to hold their hand again, but being rejected, thus qualifying a number of elementary school classmates as "dumpers") 53 times, including [the Yeti], before marrying his "ridiculously awesome" wife, Sarah Urist Green, a contemporary art curator. He proposed to her with a signed book by a mutual favorite author, whom he invited to their wedding (although said author declined the invitation).
He is the author of three books, has contributed to WPEZ radio and NPR's (National Public Radio) "All Things Considered," wrote one of the stories from Let it Snow, written with Maureen Johnson and Laureen Myracle, and contributed a short story to the collection titled "21 Proms." He and his brother are collaborators for the YouTube-based vlog "Brotherhood 2.0."
Novels
John is the author of:
- Looking for Alaska in my pants
- An Abundance of Katherines in my pants
- Paper Towns in my pants
- Let it Snow, written with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
Nerdfighters want to Name John's Next Book
Nerdfighteria
John is sometimes referred to as a King of Nerdfighteria, reportedly (potentially) based in the town Winner, South Dakota (the midpoint between John's home in Indianapolis and Hank's home in Missoula). He is one of the co-founders of this figurative kingdom, having conceived of the idea which made the nerdfighter community exist, organized around the dual purposes of celebrating nerdiness and fighting suck.
Nerdfighteria is based at "the Ning". Other important mainstays of the kingdom of Nerdfighteria are the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck and the Evil Baby Orphanage.
Miscellaneous
He has been known to express a desire for a puppy-sized elephant, only to discover that evolution had given him one, albeit several thousand years before his time. Humans then killed them.
He owns a "cutetacular" nerdfighting puppy, Willy, aka Bubbles the Nerdfighting Puppy. Willy's full name is Fireball Wilson Roberts, a name taken from the novel The Last Good Kiss.
Trivia
- Only human to have captured his own Yeti.
- Known to have extraordinarily high puff levels.
- Has a private universe to store his awesome in.
- Wears argyle socks, which does not necessarily entail their matching.
- John Green is another name for the "WOW" signal received from deep space by the Ohio State University radio telescope(The Big Ear) in 1977.
- On occasion, he has a Question Tuesday, even if it's not on a Tuesday. Pwn Train!
- He is also made of awesome, just like Hank and all other Nerdfighters! DFTBA!
- Is made of so much awesome, he can make a week have two Tuesdays just so he can answer questions on them
- Is the president of the Bibliophile Club in the Land of Fifty-Four. His booking capabilities were damaged during a battle of wits with Decepticon M.S.
- Is equally as loved throughout Nerdfighteria as his brother, Hank Green, despite what he may think. This has been proven through the many "which brother is your favorite?" threads in my pants.
- He's the favorite brother among two friends and is often discussed between them as looking very much like Herr Delzell, a teacher in their school. He also looks very much like Random Nerd Substitue Teacher and is said to resemble actor Topher Grace.
- John Green, occasionally, cracks himself up when he looks at the viewfinder by the mere sight of his Puff levels
- John recently discovered which direction to point to indicate the youtube sidebar whilst videoblogging, making him more awesome than ever.
- John is also known as J Scribble in reference to his superb penmanship.
- John once punched Chuck Norris in the face. Chuck Norris then proceeded to thank John and ask him to sign his new copy of Paper Towns (the Margo-Is-Happy cover). John agreed.
- When Google can't find something, it asks John Green for help.
- When John Green gets angry, he doesn't turn green, but The Puff is known to tremble. It is also rumored that, if John is REALLY angry, The Puff will emit a low, fierce growl.
- Is a New York Times Bestselling author! thank's, not only to the Nerdfighters sheer force, but to John's fantastic ability to write stuff worth reading, worth buying, and deserving of a spot on the NY Times. The Nerdfighters didn't put John there. He put himself there with his amazing stories. We just gave him the leg up he needed.
- Wrote a short story in a collection of short stories called "21 Proms".
- Once divided by zero, and didnt die.
- Gives good hugs.
External Links
Thank you, John. -Margo.
