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John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTube content creator, podcaster, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including his 2012 novel, The Fault in Our Stars, which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. Aside from being a novelist, Green is well known for his online content creation, most notably his YouTube ventures with his brother Hank Green.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Green was raised in Orlando, Florida before attending boarding school outside of Birmingham, Alabama, graduating in 1995. After graduating from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and religious studies before spending six months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital. Green was deeply affected by the difficult experience, which later partially inspired The Fault in Our Stars. As a result, Green reconsidered his path and began working at Booklist magazine while writing his first novel Looking for Alaska. His debut novel was published in 2005 and was awarded the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award. While living in New York City, Green published his second novel An Abundance of Katherines, which became a Printz Honor book. Starting on January 1, 2007, John and his brother Hank launched the Vlogbrothers channel, which quickly spawned an active online-based community called Nerdfighteria that has persisted and grown over time. That same year, they started the annual telethon-style livestreaming fundraiser Project for Awesome, and John moved back to Indianapolis.

Green released three novels over the next two years: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008, with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle), his third solo novel, Paper Towns (2008), and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010, with David Levithan). Paper Towns was awarded the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award and the 2010 Corine Literature Prize. In 2010, Hank and John also launched VidCon, an annual conference for the online video community, which grew to include international versions and was ultimately purchased by Viacom in 2018. In 2011, the brothers received a grant from the YouTube Original Channel Initiative, resulting in Crash Course, a wide-ranging educational channel that has since expanded to forty-four main series, of which John has hosted nine. After two years of producing the channel with the grant, they launched Subbable, a monthly subscription-based crowdfunding platform which was purchased by Patreon in 2015. Green's next novel, The Fault in Our Stars (2012) proved to be a massive success, creating a passionate fan base of readers and debuting at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books, and remaining on the list for over two-and-a-half years. A film adaptation was greenlit within three weeks of the books release. The 2014 movie opened at number one at the box office and was a commercial and critical success, leading to several other film and television adaptations of his work. That same year, Green was included in Time magazine's list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World. The weekly comedy podcast Dear Hank & John debuted in 2015, co-hosted by the Green brothers.

Green's next two projects dealt more directly with his own struggles with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, starting with Turtles All the Way Down (2017). In January 2018, Green launched The Anthropocene Reviewed, a solo podcast of reviews of different facets of the Anthropocene on a five-star scale. Green later adapted the essays into a book, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021). Green's first nonfiction book, the essays were ordered chronologically through his life to give the approximate structure of a memoir. John has also collaborated with his wife, Sarah Urist Green, on launching The Art Assignment (2017–2020) and Ours Poetica (2019–present), video series which focus on visual art and poetry respectively. Since the mid-2010s, John Green has been a prominent supporter and fundraiser for Partners In Health in their goal of reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone.