About John Marsden (writer)
John Marsden (27 September 1950 – 18 December 2024) was an Australian writer and teacher. He wrote more than 40 books in his career, including his young adult novel Tomorrow, When the War Began, which began a series of seven books. Marsden began writing for children while working as a teacher, and had his first book, So Much to Tell You, published in 1987. In 2006, he started an alternative school, Candlebark School, and reduced his writing to focus on teaching and running the school. In 2016, he opened the arts-focused secondary school, Alice Miller School. Both schools are in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria. In 1993, Marsden published Tomorrow, When the War Began, the first book in the Tomorrow series and his most acclaimed work. Marsden won every major writing award in Australia for young people's fiction, including what he described as one of the highlights of his career, the 2006 Lloyd O'Neil Award for contributions to Australian publishing.
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