The Contact Page
Hi. John here. The best way to contact me depends upon the nature of your inquiry. So:
Questions about press and publicity should be directed to Elyse Marshall, whose email address is elyse.marshall((@))us.penguingroup.com, except obviously without the parentheses.
Questions about movie rights and other things that involve money should go to my agent, the lovely and tenacious Jodi Reamer at Writers House. Her email address is jreamer((@))writershouse.com.
The person to talk to about library visits and speaking engagements and whatnot is Megan Halpern at the Penguin Speakers Bureau, who can be reached at Megan.Halpern((@))us.penguingroup.com. (It should be noted that I travel very rarely these days.)
If you would like to purchase signed copies of my books, you can do so through the first great bookstore love of my life, The Book Cellar in Chicago. Email words(@)bookcellarinc.com and let them know the titles in which you are interested.
If you wish to send me something in the actual mail because you want to support the good men and women of the United States Postal Service, you are welcome to do so care of my publisher, Dutton Books for Young Readers, at 345 Hudson Street in the great city of New York, NY, zip code 10014. My P.O. Box is number 30152 in Indianapolis, IN 46230. However, please note that I do not reply to snail mail. There are no exceptions to this rule. I do not even reply to snail mail from my mom.
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Dear John,
I just wanted to say that your writing has absolutely changed my life, I still cry over your brilliance every time I pick up one of your books and my friends are often annoyed at me for quoting your characters in every situation in life. I don’t mean to pull a total Peter Van Houten on you but I did have a few questions about the remaining characters in TFIOS. Like does Hazel die shortly after the book finishes or does she live longer? And what about Isaac, like I know he’s blind and all but what happens to him? Along with Patrick (support group leader with no balls) These are the kinds of questions that I spend hours of my day wondering when I should be doing useful things like going outside and such…
Anyway I don’t mean to go on and on but your work has really meant a lot to me and I thank you so much for sharing your writing with all of us
Yours truly
Scarlett
Dear John,
I believe you should pick Joshua Brand for the lead of Augustus Waters. I believe that Joshua has better traits in order to play Augustus. Not only that but it could also be his big break. Ansel Elgort has several big roles awaiting him. One including Divergent which is already a very well known book. I know my input does not matter but it’s not just mine. I know others out there feel the same. No I am not hating on Ansel Elgort I just believe Joshua has better features and characteristics for this role.
Dear Mr. Green;
Having just finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and as a graduate of ETHS, (where my mother taught English for close to thirty years) it was strange to see the school as a sort of placeholder. For all the exact school mattered in the story, WG could have been attending New Trier, or even Loyola. I was wondering what lead you to chose ETHS, then use it so cavalierly. Do you see any need for an author of fiction to try to make his geography match the ” real” world?
I have been greatly enjoying your work, and do not mean this as any type of complaint.
Congratulations on Alice’s arrival!
Becky
Dear John,
Your writing has completely changed my life. Your books have changed my perspective of life. I wish you had more books or even movies. For now I sit around all day and re-read your books. I think if you decided to produce movies based on your books they would be very successful.
Keep writing,
Virginia
Dear John Green,
I am incredibly upset with you at this moment. I fell in love with Augustus Waters, and I know that he had to die, and that Hazel had to live without her love, but you ended it so beautifully and abruptly that I am upset with you. It honestly doesn’t make sense, I apologize. Augustus was a human who was amazinng and wonderful and absurd. Basically, perfection without the perfect part. This book actually made me cry. I never cry. It was weird, ya know. Your writing made think all funky great and what not. I really did just throw a fit when I read the last two words of The Fault in Our Stars. I threw a fit like a childish 16 year old girl does. Of course. This is becoming much too long. I love your writing, and your characters are humans that I only dream of knowing. Don’t let go of your talent, it’s wonderful and truly mesmerizing.
Dailie
Dear John,
I’m a 21 year old girl from Sweden and I found your book by accident.
I just finished your book, The fault in our stars, and I have to say it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read.
(And I read a lot!)
I can not describe how much I love it. And as I was reading it felt like my heart was breaking with every chapter.
Thank you so much for writing this book. You inspire me to write my own stories.
Love,
Felicia.
Dear John,
Though I have only read a few of your great books, they have changed my perspective towards things in my life. Your books teach life lessons in ways you may not realize. And to me, that’s a lot. I may only be a 16-year-old girl, but I think a lot about life and death and all the things in-between those two events. Your books seem to add a little intellectual thought to the already built up knowledge in my mind. I really appreciate your writing. It’s been a pleasure reading your work, and I’ll read it a thousand times more.
Thank you for your writing and please, never stop! The world needs amazing writers like you to keep it spinning!
With Love Always,
Olivia Arcidiacono
Dear John,
In Paper Towns, do Radar’s parents ever buy the World’s Second Largest Collection of Black Santas?
PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Thank you.
-Hanna
I wish i had something smart, witty, or even intelligent to say to you. I’d love to impress you with that sort of thing, but the only thing i know for sure that i can tell you, without completely humiliating myself in front of my inspiring idol, is how much i love your work. It’s not only your humor and your intelligence, per say, but the heart you put into your words and your writing. I wish i could fully express to you over pressing buttons of a keyboard my raw feelings about you and your books. Alas I can not.
With Care,
Hannah
Hi John,
I know whatever I say isn’t gonna come out right, so I’ll keep it simple.
My godsister died of brain cancer not five years ago. She was 12 and I was 9.
I haven’t really processed what it meant when someone told me Julia was dead until recently.
And then I picked up your book The Fault in Our Stars.
Let’s just say it was painful for me to read, but I did, because it made me feel better to know that I’m not really the one who needs to feel pain, because hey, despite everything else, I’m living and breathing and mostly healthy (I have strep).
Your writing gave me a new lease on life.
And since I’ve been in a stage of depression for two years, thanks so much for getting me out of that with writing something relatable. Your books and Ed Sheeran’s music.
I honestly can’t thank you enough for helping me.
But thanks,
Sophia
Dear John,
Thank you for being such an amazing human being and writing supermegafoxyawesomehot novels. That having been said, I have exams soon, and I just stayed up all night reading TFiOS. Thanks.
Dear John,
I have read everyone of your books and they have all made me cry. that sounds sad, but it isn’t. I shall explain. If i cry when i read a book it means it was so amazing and moving it made me feel something. If the whole crying ordeal happens it means I will never forget the book. I read a lot of books, but yours seem to be some of my favorite. please never stop writing because we will never stop reading.
A big fan, (not your biggest because how do i know who your biggest fan is?)
sami
Dear John,
How’re you? Recently, I went to the Anderson Public Library to find one of your books, being unsuccessful of course. Anyways, I found a copy of “The Fault In Our Stars” and began reading it two days ago. I’m dyslexic so I’m not that fast of a reader. But I must say, the book is absolutely stunning. I was wondering if you were planning on writing more books? I’m really hoping so. I’ve never heard of anyone so talented with their writing skills. I’d also like to thank you for writing. It really is something I love most in this world, your writing. Thank you for your time.
-Destiny
Dear Mr. Green,
Is it possible to love an hate something at the same time? To love the idea of something, but then hate having it? This is what I have been pondering over with your books. I love them, and I hate them! In reality, and we all know what a sick and twisted place that is, I hate that the books end. Nobody ever wants anything to end, ever. Us as human beings are scared of it. With your books I dread the endings, I never want them to come! But I finish the book within a few hours for starting! (Con of being the fastest reader in your grade, I also have the best reading comprehension.) It feels like it’s over too soon. Looking back during “The Aftershock” (term used to describe the emptiness at the end of the book) it’s always ended in the perfect place. I am still at the meer age of 14 2/3 yrs I hav decided I would like to write, and I would like to write books that do the same thing yours do. What they do for me is provoke thoughts, and ideas most books meant for people my age don’t. Your books make me think. And for that I owe you the world and more.
Thank you, Molly L. Howes.
Ps: feel free to email me, I understand you are probably very busy, but if you were to email me I could provide a recent short story I wrote, and I would love to have some constructive critisim from you.
My cousin wrote this after reading The Fault in our Stars and I felt I should share:
Do you ever finish a book and it makes you really sad? And you’re not sad because the book is sad, you’re sad because you had to say goodbye to the characters, either through death or the book ending, and you know that you will never again experience the book exactly like that. And its not a sad that you cry about. Its a sad that makes your stomach hurt, but its more hopeful than depressing. Its a hope that just takes time, and you realize that you learned something brilliant from the book. Books like that make you think about the world differently. Its like that one book makes the world less despicable because you understand it better. It is now my firm belief that if we can just understand the human race, most of our problems will disappear. The fault in our stars is not fate being cruel ir anything like that. It is that we believe that as humans we have no faults. We strive to make marks on the world so that when oblivion swallows us, we will still be in the world. But John is right when he says that the observers are the heroes. They see things, understand, and keep quiet about them. Therefore, it is them who understand the world, not scientists or philosophers, because they don’t try to make things out of the world that make it sound better. They see it in all of its cruelty, and that is when it can be understood. But anyway, it was a brilliantly tragic book that makes me like John Green even better.
Dear John,
I wont lie, I have no idea what to say. I’m not a writer. But after reading your books it is clear that, writing was what you were meant to do. I’m sure you hear this a lot but your books are so thought provoking and after literally finishing the fault in our stars, literally 10 minutes ago I felt that I had to thank you. I have felt things that at only 15, I’m not sure I could before. I felt what they did and cried with them and laughed at the characters wit. But I could not stop thinking about the concept of infinities. The idea that in only a short amount of time an eternity can exist due to what you do and feel, gives me a strange sense of hope. That to know that, even if your days were only limited you could live forever in them. That just because someone said you cannot does not mean you cant. The story of Gus and Hazel is truly one, I’m not quite sure I’ll ever forget. So yet again I think that I want to thank you, because even though I haven’t seen the world I feel like experienced so much more by just reading your books.
So, thank you,
Erin
I have only ever read one of your books, The Fault in Our Stars, and I will not deceive myself into thinking that you have changed my life or that you as a person have become a highly important figure in my life. I do not know you. What I do know, however, is that you have written a book about a girl and a boy in which someone can begin to believe is reality.
My name is Sue and I am a cancer patient. Not the type of cancer patient that Hazel or Augustus were but my own type of cancer patient in which I believe to be special but am, of course, one of millions. I am not special, different, or otherwise extraordinary. I do not have a life worth publishing. Yet, you made it seem like I actually did. Reading your book I felt that although I do not have an Augustus, someone might want to hear my story. I am not about to write and publish anything and for now, I don’t want to anyway. I just wanted to let you know that your words and the life you gave two fictional characters, along with Van Houten whose words resounded so strongly in me, made me feel like less of a burden and less of a tragedy.
~Sue
OI. John. So like, I suggested your book ” the faults in our stars ” for one of my friends, but because she only reads manga comics, she said that she won’t. I wouldn’t freaking take that answer, so I’ve decided to make your book into a manga. I don’t know if you’re like, not into that, but I don’t know if you need to know that I’m doing or something. It’s not like I’ll publish it, I mean, let’s be honest, I’ll probably never finish it. I’m lazy okay. But like, y’ know. Also, yeah. You’re an amazing writer. Write another book, dammit. Or I’ll find you.
You are a freaking wonderful writer, I’d say person, but I really don’t know you in real life. But you seem funny on YouTube. So like… Ah…. Yeah. The manga idea. Won’t publish it, and yeah.
- from me.
( by me, I mean lulu, but for you it would be ‘ you ‘ instead of ‘ me’ )
Dear John,
As a healthy teenage girl, reading The Faults In Our Stars made me conscious about what is life having any disease. I really enjoyed this book (totally one if my favorites), it made me laugh and cry (lots of). I really would like to thank you for writing such and amazing story, a story that would remain in my heart. The story between Hazel and Gus is one of my favorites, one that is worth reading about, I’m pretty sure I’ll never forget about it.
I’ve got nothing else to say but, thank you so much for writing this book.
- Paola
John,
Ever since Harry Potter ended, I honestly hit a book reading depression. I couldn’t get much enjoyment out of any novel.
Today, I bought “An Abundance of Katherines”. I’m not even to page 50 yet and I can honestly say that I’m getting the reading feel back, and I feel it will stick with me this time.
Thank you for, what is so far, a brilliant book. I cant wait to read all of your others.
You’re super awesome.
N stuff.
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