Beloved Australian author John Marsden, best known for his young adult novels like 'Tomorrow, When the War Began,' and 'The Rabbits,' passed away at the age of 74. He died peacefully at his home, surrounded by his writing.
John Marsden , author of Tomorrow , When the War Began, has died aged 74. Alice Miller School, one of two schools that Marsden founded in Victoria, confirmed his death in a letter to parents. “He died at his desk in his home, doing what he loved, writing,” the statement read. The Guardian has confirmed his death separately, but no cause of death has yet been given. Marsden was born in 1950 and grew up in both Kyneton, Victoria, and Devonport, Tasmania.
His great-great-great-great uncle was the colonial Anglican clergyman and magistrate Rev Samuel Marsden. Marsden’s mother encouraged education and reading, so he grew up on Daniel Defoe, Ian Fleming and Enid Blyton.When he was 10, the Marsdens moved to Sydney and he was sent to The King’s School, Parramatta. Marsden wrote that he “barely” survived the strict school, “having ignored or defied most of the school rules during his years there” and spent his time in detention reading. In 1967, as a teenager, he wrote a letter for the school magazine criticising the school’s prefect system that caused a controversy and gave him a taste of the power of language.admitted to a psychiatric hospital, which he later said enabled him to begin “building a new life”. After drifting between jobs, he began a teaching course at 28 and eventually became an English teacher, which was when he began writing books. From the beginning he set out to write for young people, having watched as the young adult genre blossomed in the US. He finished his first complete novel in just three weeks: So Much To Tell You, which was published in 1987, won many awards and would go on to be studied by countless Australian student
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