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AUTHOR’S NOTE
I learned about paper towns by coming across one during a road trip my junior
year of college. My traveling companion and I kept driving up and down the
same desolate stretch of highway in South Dakota, searching for this town the
map promised existed—as I recall, the town was called Holen. Finally, we pulled
into a driveway and knocked on a door. The friendly woman who answered had
been asked the question before. She explained that the town we were seeking
existed only on the map.
The story of Agloe, New York—as outlined in this book—is mostly true.
Agloe began as a paper town created to protect against copyright infringement.
But then people with those old Esso maps kept looking for it, and so someone
built a store, making Agloe real. The business of cartography has changed a lot
since Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers invented Agloe. But many mapmakers
still include paper towns as copyright traps, as my bewildering experience in
South Dakota attests.
The store that was Agloe no longer stands. But I believe that if we were to
put it back on our maps, someone would eventually rebuild it.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank:
—My parents, Sydney and Mike Green. I never thought I would say this, but:
thank you for raising me in Florida.
—My brother and favorite collaborator, Hank Green.
—My mentor, Ilene Cooper.
—Everyone at Dutton, but particularly my incomparable editor, Julie Strauss-
Gabel, Lisa Yoskowitz, Sarah Shumway, Stephanie Owens Lurie, Christian
Fünfhausen, Rosanne Lauer, Irene Vandervoort, and Steve Meltzer.
—My delightfully tenacious agent, Jodi Reamer.
—The Nerdfighters, who have taught me so much about the meaning of
awesome.
—My writing partners Emily Jenkins, Scott Westerfeld, Justine Larbalestier,
and Maureen Johnson.
—Two particularly helpful books I read about disappearance while
researching Paper Towns: William Dear’s The Dungeon Master and Jon
Krakauer’s Into the Wild. I am also grateful to Cecil Adams, the big brain behind
“The Straight Dope,” whose short article on copyright traps is—so far as I know
—the definitive resource on the subject.
—My grandparents: Henry and Billie Grace Goodrich, and William and Jo
Green.
—Emily Johnson, whose readings of this book were invaluable; Joellen
Hosler, the best therapist a writer could ask for; cousins-in-law Blake and Phyllis
Johnson; Brian Lipson and Lis Rowinski at Endeavor; Katie Else; Emily
Blejwas, who joined me on that trip to the paper town; Levin O’Connor, who
taught me most of what I know about funny; Tobin Anderson and Sean, who
took me urban exploring in Detroit; school librarian Susan Hunt and all those
who risk their jobs to stand against censorship; Shannon James; Markus Zusak;
John Mauldin and my wonderful parents-in-law, Connie and Marshall Urist.
—Sarah Urist Green, my first reader and first editor and best friend and
favorite teammate.

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