John Marsden
author : John Marsden
category : Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction
John Marsden was born in Victoria, Australia in 1950. He went to many different primary schools, and from an early age enjoyed the journeys into magical worlds that reading could provide. His teachers in Grade 4 and Grade 6 encouraged him to write, and at the age of nine he decided he wanted to become an author.
For seven years he attended The King's School Parramatta, a strict military school in Sydney, and from there went on to the University of Sydney. However, he soon decided that a career in law looked too boring, so he dropped out and drifted around for nearly 10 years, trying different jobs, and earning just enough money to support himself.
When he was 28, he began a teaching course, which he loved from the start. Embarking on a teaching career, he also became more and more interested in writing, and in 1987 succeeded in getting his first book, "So Much to Tell You", published.
John's interest in education has never waned. In 1998 he bought the Tye Estate, 850 acres of natural bush, on the northern edge of Melbourne, and later added the property next door. For eight years he ran enormously popular writers' courses and camps at Tye, before starting his own school there, Candlebark, in 2006.
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John Marsden Book Series
Incurable
While I Live
Out of Time
Checkers
The Great Gatenby
Looking for Trouble
Winter
Cool School: You Make It Happen
Darkness, Be My Friend
Circle of Flight
South of Darkness
Harald Hardrada
The Year My Life Broke
The Other Side of Dawn
Creep Street: You Make It Happen
Letters From the Inside
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Hamlet
A Killing Frost
The Journey
Staying Alive in Year Five
The Dead of Night
Creep Street
Tomorrow 2 - The Dead Of The Night
Tomorrow 6 - The Night is for Hunting
Tomorrow 7 - The Other Side Of Dawn
The Night Is for Hunting
Cool School
While I live ec-1
Incurable ec-2
Tomorrow 4 - Darkness, Be My Friend
Tomorrow 5 - Burning for Revenge
Tomorrow 1 - When The War Began
Staying Alive in Year 5
Tomorrow 3 - The Third Day, The Frost