John Green: ‘I devoured the Sweet Valley High books in the 1980s’
The American author on being inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, coming late to Jane Austen, and the brilliance of Robert Penn WarrenMy earliest reading memory I remember learning to read with dull stories about Jane going up a hill, but my earliest thrilling reading memories are of series like The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High. In the highly gendered reading days of the…
The American author on being inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, coming late to Jane Austen, and the brilliance of Robert Penn WarrenMy earliest reading memory I remember learning to read with dull stories about Jane going up a hill, but my earliest thrilling reading memories are of series like The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High. In the highly gendered reading days of the…
