John Michael Green was born there on August 24, 1977, but
his story really begins somewhere less glamorous: a hospital chaplaincy where
he sat with dying children and learned, in the most unglamorous way possible,
how ordinary people carry extraordinary pain. That experience would later
become the emotional engine of a career that has made him one of the most
recognizable authors in America, and one of the internet’s most unlikely
teachers.
From Chaplain to Chronicler
Before Green was a...
