John Marsden: (27 September 1950- )

Mark Macleod

John Marsden: (27 September 1950- )

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Entry for the US Dictionary of Literary Biography on Australia's most successful writer for Young Adults, John Marsden. The article is 6000 words long, tracks Marsden's writing career and positions his work in Australia's changing cultural and political contexts at the end of the 20th century. It explores Marsden's interest in the relationship between the creative process and education, and questions the gap between his popularity with young adult readers and the ambivalence of adult critics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Dictionary of Literary Biography 391
Subtitle of host publication	Young Adult Novelists
Editors	Anne Hiebert Alton
Place of Publication	Farmington Hills, Michigan
Publisher	Gale
Pages	156-167
Number of pages	12
Volume	391
Edition	2nd
ISBN (Print)	9780028672373
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Name	Dictionary of Literary Biography: Young Adult Novelists, Second Series
Publisher	Gale: a Cengage Company; A Brucoli Clark Layman Inc Book
Volume	391

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John Marsden: (27 September 1950- ). / Macleod, Mark.
Dictionary of Literary Biography 391: Young Adult Novelists. ed. / Anne Hiebert Alton. Vol. 391 2nd. ed. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2023. p. 156-167 (Dictionary of Literary Biography: Young Adult Novelists, Second Series; Vol. 391).

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