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"Celebrated author and educator John Marsden, best known for his dystopian
young adult
Tomorrow series, has died aged 74.
The bestselling author of more than 40 books, Marsden spent his early years in
country Victoria and Tasmania, before moving to Sydney when he was ten. There,
he attended the strict Kings School, where he “got in endless trouble” as a
secondary student and “defied every rule and regulation”.
His difficult early life seemed to feed into his work as a writer and teacher
of young people, including founding two alternative schools in Victoria:
Candlebark, a prep to year seven school, in Romsey (founded in 2006), and a
secondary school, the Alice Miller School in Macedon (in 2016).
Reflecting on the
Tomorrow series, which has sold millions of copies
worldwide, he wrote,
I resented the control adults had over my life. I got sick of being told
what to do and when to do it, what not to do and how I should be. I
daydreamed occasionally of a world where the adults miraculously
disappeared.
In his books, he was able to give licence to his daydreams."
RIP,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
