The first adult novel from bestselling young adult author John Green is coming later this year.
Dutton will publish Green’s Hollywood, Ending in the fall, the press announced in a news release. It calls the novel “a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life.”
Green made his literary debut in 2005 with the YA novel Looking for Alaska, which won the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Award. One year later he released An Abundance of Katherines and went on to publish several more books, including The Fault in Our Stars, which became a massive bestseller. His most recent work of fiction, Turtles All the Way Down, was published in 2017.
He has written two works of nonfiction, The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything Is Tuberculosis, and is also known as a popular YouTuber, co-hosting the Vlogbrothers channel with his brother, author Hank Green.
Hollywood, Ending will follow Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, two young actors whose lives change after being cast in an Andy Warhol biopic. The book, Dutton says, “is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto.”
Green announced news of his new novel on the Vlogbrothers channel, saying, “There were many times over the years where I thought I could never publish this book, partly for personal reasons, but now it is finally ready, and I am so, so excited to share it with you.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
