JOHN GREEN

"The Fault in Our Stars" author John Green's first nonfiction work, "The Anthropocene Reviewed," amusingly rates the highs and lows of humanity.

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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie appears at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall. Alexie is included in a list of authors who wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. The association does not formally count the number of times books are actually removed from a library shelf or from a school reading list. “There are actually two lines of objections to the Anne Frank diary,” Caldwell-Stone says.

In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017, file photo, Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput speaks during a press conference to promote his upcoming movie "Raabta" in Ahmadabad, India. Never has the release of a Bollywood movie been so steeped in tragedy, and so surrounded by grief. Mumbai police are still investigating the circumstances of Rajputs June 14 death, which they have ruled a suicide. A rancorous debate around what pushed him to take his life has a bevy of angry actors and filmmakers facing off on social media. Mumbai is the city of dreams for millions of aspiring actors, but not many make it big in Bollywood.

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But as he tells 60 Minutes correspondent Jon Wertheim, he turned his past struggles into a strength, creating a voice that resonates with teenagers today. In the clip above, he told Wertheim that he was bullied in middle school because he didn't fit in, an experience that made him feel isolated and scared. For him, being bullied was out of his control and he didn't know how to make it stop. But he told Wertheim that he was rejected from an advanced fiction writing class at Kenyon. Green's professor told him that his writing style sounded like someone else, not the way he told stories in person.

Author John Green: The "60 Minutes" interview... The bestselling author of books like "The Fault in Our Stars," opens up to "60 Minutes" about exploring his fears through his writing. Jon Wertheim

John Green is many things successful podcaster, novelist, vlogger. But the secret behind it all is simple: he's just being John Green. And on their podcast "Dear Hank & John," they answer questions and dispense advice to listeners, however dubious. As correspondent Jon Wertheim reports this week on 60 Minutes, the secret of John Green's success is his authenticity. And I think he's said, listen, if these are your interests, embrace them," Wertheim said.

Instead of the typical interview set-up, ET asked Green -- whose own high school experiences inspired the book -- to ask the young Looking for Alaska cast questions of his own and the best-selling author delivered. When Green asked if the thought ever crossed her mind that she could one day play the eponymous heroine, Froseth adorably answered, "No! When Green asked the cast how they handled filming the more emotionally raw scenes, Lee had a particularly illuminating answer. When the Looking for Alaska cast asked Green their biggest questions after reading the book and filming the series, the author admitted he was surprised no one asked the No. RELATED CONTENT:Hulu's 'Looking for Alaska' Casts Charlie Plummer and Kristine Froseth as Romantic Leads

(Reuters) - The longest-serving sheriff of Philadelphia, who this year admitted taking some $675,000 in bribes and kickbacks from a local businessman, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison, prosecutors said. John Green, 72, was also ordered to forfeit $76,000 in the case, the latest to expose corruption in Philadelphia city government. Sheriff Green sold the business of his office for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, Brian Benczkowski, assistant attorney general of the Justice Departments criminal division, said in a written statement. Green and businessman James Davis were indicted on a string of federal charges in 2015. Davis was sentenced earlier this year to 10 years in federal prison.

The former Sheriff of Philadelphia John Green, 72, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to serve five years in prison followed by one year of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $76,581 by U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. John Green was convicted of conspiring to defraud the citizens of Philadelphia of his honest services as Sheriff of Philadelphia by receiving and accepting a stream of hidden personal benefits from co-defendant James Davis in exchange for giving Davis millions of dollars of business at the Philadelphia Sheriffs Office. In exchange, Green gave his co-defendant Davis over $35 million of business at the Philadelphia Sheriffs Office in the sale of homes at sheriffs sales. The Controllers Office hired Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, which conducted a forensic investigation of the Sheriffs Office. The case was investigated by the FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation, and the City of Philadelphia Office of Inspector General.

John Green is many things successful podcaster, novelist, vlogger. But the secret behind it all is simple: he's just being John Green. And on their podcast "Dear Hank & John," they answer questions and dispense advice to listeners, however dubious. As correspondent Jon Wertheim reports this week on "60 Minutes," the secret of John Green's success is his authenticity. And I think he's said, listen, if these are your interests, embrace them," Wertheim says.

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