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novel by John Green

This article is about the novel. For the film, see The Fault in Our Stars (film). For other uses, see The Fault in Our Stars (disambiguation).

The Fault in Our Stars is a novel by John Green. It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall.

It was published on January 10, The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "Men at some time were masters of their fates, / The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." Author John Green was inspired to write the book after working as a student chaplain in a children's hospital, and it is dedicated to his friend Esther Earl, who died of Thyroid cancer in , age The story is narrated by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a year-old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs.

Hazel is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she subsequently meets and falls