47th Annual Bucksbaum Distinguished Lectureship with John Green

Drake University is honored to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author John Green for the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lectureship. Green is known for his beloved and acclaimed novels, including The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, and Turtles All the Way Down. His latest work, Everything is Tuberculosis, is a deeply human social and scientific history that illuminates the critical healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. As part of the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lectureship Series, Green will deliver a lecture on Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in the Knapp Center.

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