'I try to take teenagers seriously and credit them with the intelligence and curiosity that I've seen in them, and that I remember from my own adolescence,' he said. The New Yorker has called Green 'the teen whisperer' because of the huge following he's amassed through his video blogs and bestselling books like ' The Fault in Our Stars.'īut as Green told Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti, he's not sure why his work appeals to teens, but he hopes they respond to it.
' Paper Towns,' the film based on the young adult novel by John Green, opens in theaters tomorrow. (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) This article is more than 6 years old.
Author John Green poses for photographers at the photo call for the film Paper Towns in Claridges, central London, Thursday, 18 June, 2015.
