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- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- John Marsden was born in 1950 in Victoria, Australia. He was a writer, known for Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), Tomorrow: The Dead of the Night and Tomorrow, When the War Began (2016). He was married to Kristin. He died in December 2024 in Australia.
- SpouseKristin(? - December 2024) (his death)
- He won many major awards for children's and adult fiction, and in 2006 received the Lloyd O'Neil Award for contributions to Australian publishing.
- His great-great-great-great uncle was the colonial Anglican clergyman and magistrate Rev Samuel Marsden.
- For much of his career, Marsden continued to work as a teacher full-time.
- 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.
- When he was 10, the Marsdens moved to Sydney and he was sent to the King's School, Parramatta.
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