John Marsden

John Marsden

John Marsden is an internationally best-selling Australian author of young adult fiction. John Marsden is best known for his popular Tomorrow book series which has been adapted for film and television...
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John Marsden’s Tomorrow series has been described as “the best series for Australian teens of all time” by The Age. It follows a group of Australian teenagers who upon returning from a week camping, discover the country has been invaded and is at war.

There are seven books in the Tomorrow series: Tomorrow, When the War Began, The Dead of the Night, The Third Day, the Frost, Darkness, Be My Friend, Burning for Revenge, The Night is for Hunting, and The Other Side of Dawn. The movie adaptation of Tomorrow, When the War Began stars Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Lincoln Lewis.

The Ellie Chronicles is a trilogy that follows on from the story of the Tomorrow series. In the Ellie Chronicles we follow Ellie in post-War times. The series includes While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles (2003), Incurable: The Ellie Chronicles (2005), and Circle of Flight: The Ellie Chronicles (2006).

Other audiobooks by Marsden include his first book, So Much to Tell You published in 1987, as well as Winter, Hamlet: A Novel, and The Year My Life Broke. Marsden departs from his usual style of books for children and young adults with a novel written for an adult audience: South of Darkness, published in 2014.

Marsden has won the American Library Association’s Best Book of the Year award and received the prestigious Lloyd O’Neil Award for contributions to Australian publishing in 2006.

Marsden attended The Kings School at Parramatta, and was accepted in to Sydney University to study Law and Arts. During his 20s Marsden worked in a number of different jobs. He eventually settled on teaching, a profession he continues to this day.

Marsden is the founder and principal of the Candlebark School, set on 1100 acres of bushland in the foothills of the Macedon Ranges, north of Melbourne.