While so-called “sick lit” has in recent years faced criticism for romanticizing terminal illness and death, The Fault in Our Stars is an undeniable juggernaut of YA literature, offering a heart-wrenching portrait of the intensity of young love. The cultural fanfare surrounding Green’s electric story continued when a movie adaptation starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort hit theaters in 2014. 1 best seller, and the book went on to spend 78 consecutive weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and sell more than 23 million copies worldwide. The 2012 release of the highly anticipated teen drama, Green’s fifth, made it an instant No. Laura Dern (Little Fockers) and Sam Trammell (TV's True Blood) also star in this powerful film based on John Green's New York Times bestseller. Hazel is 16 and is reluctant to go to the support. Let's take a moment and consider all the implications of that, and why he is making a colossal understatement when he described the experience as 'devastating.' That was about twelve years ago, and Green has said in interviews that because of this experience, he's spent twelve years trying to write a book. The Fault In Our Stars is a fabulous book about a young teenage girl who has been diagnosed with lung cancer and attends a cancer support group.
His most-beloved book takes inspiration for its title from a famous line in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar : “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” The Fault in Our Stars charts the love story of Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old with stage IV thyroid cancer, and Augustus Waters, a 17-year-old in remission from osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that caused him to lose a leg, after they meet in a cancer support group. At age twenty-two, John Green worked as a student chaplain in a children's hospital. As one of the most popular young-adult writers of the 21st century, internationally best-selling author John Green has become an entry point to the genre for many readers.
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