John Green's Turtles All The Way Down

John Green is a famous young adult author. He has wrote many books about the struggles of young adult life. He not only writes about that but also about people who have health issues. He reaches out to help you youth and wants to inspire them and help them to know that even being different is okay. John Green had to go through many obstacles to get to where he is now. He went through many different disorders such as OCD and anxiety disorders. John Michael Green was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 24th 1977. Green spent most of his childhood in Orlando, Florida where he attended Lake Highland Preparatory School. Greens mothers name is Sydney Green, his fathers name is Mike green and his younger brothers name is William Henry

He focuses on the young adult generation for many different reasons. He has OCD and anxiety just like many of the young adults. Green really struggled with his mind there for a little while. He stated that “I couldn’t escape the spiral of my thoughts, and I felt like they were coming from the outside.” After Green went through and overcame this moment in his life, he was inspired to start writing “Turtles All the Way Down” This book really explains what it is like to live in the constant fear of your own mind. Green states “Coming out of that, it was difficult to write about anything else,” “The topic demanded itself.” He writes his stories from the perspectives of young people who struggle from these diseases as well. Green explains in his books how that these teens go about coping with their disorders and how that they get through the struggles of everyday life with these

This book won the Michael L. Printz Award the American Library Association’s honor for best Young Adult book of the year. One of John Green's most famous books “The Fault in Our Stars” not only was a New York Times best seller for a hundred and twenty-four consecutive weeks and spend forty three weeks as the number 1 young adult book but also had a movie made based off of it. On June 6th Twentieth Century Fox released the movie. Three years after Green had published the book “The Fault in Our Stars” he began to worry that he would never publish another book again due to his severe onset of anxiety. Green, hoping that he could get inspiration, went off of his medicine which ended up not working instead made things worse, “I can’t think straight -- I can only think in swirls and scribbles,” Green stated. Green eventually recovered in late 2015 and started writing a new book and began to get it published. “It’s not a mountain that you climb or a hurdle that you Jump, it’s something that you live with in an ongoing way,” Green