A daily blog by author John Green, winner of the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for his debut work of fiction, "Looking for Alaska."
John's second novel, "An Abundance of Katherines," is now available at Amazon.com.
I am going to be working with you tomorrow at the Young Adult Literature Conference in Huntsville, TX. I am really excited to get to meet you! See you (way too early) tomorrow. ;-)
The guy had so much more compassion, curiosity, and intelligence than most everyone else in the field. He was like a modern Walt Whitman, listening to janitors and soldiers and the homeless immigrants on the street corner and making us listen to them in turn.
He was also always interested in teens, and in the issues that affected them, as this list of his programs (including interviews with Tobias Woolf and Judith Guest) shows.
Wow, 96. I can't even imagine what all he experienced throughout his life.
ReplyDeleteHe sounds fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI am going to be working with you tomorrow at the Young Adult Literature Conference in Huntsville, TX. I am really excited to get to meet you! See you (way too early) tomorrow. ;-)
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The guy had so much more compassion, curiosity, and intelligence than most everyone else in the field. He was like a modern Walt Whitman, listening to janitors and soldiers and the homeless immigrants on the street corner and making us listen to them in turn.
ReplyDeleteHe was also always interested in teens, and in the issues that affected them, as this list of his programs (including interviews with Tobias Woolf and Judith Guest) shows.
http://www.studsterkel.org/radio.php?gallery=sub--Teens
96,
ReplyDeletethats a really long life, on ethat apears to have been filled with joy and happiness. wow
Best fictional-sounding name for a non-fiction writer ever.
ReplyDeleteStuds showed that real people mattered in a world full of fakes.