Owen Marshall is the pen name of Owen Marshall Jones, a New Zealand

New Zealand

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 short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister and older brother of Rhys Jones

Rhys Jones (soldier)

Lieutenant General Richard Rhys Jones is the current Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force.-Early life:Jones was born in in Timaru, the son of Methodist minister Alan Jones and the youngest in a family of nine, six in his immediate family plus three half-brothers including writer Owen Marshall...

, he came of age in Blenheim

Blenheim, New Zealand

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 and Timaru

Timaru

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, and graduated from the University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury

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 with an MA in English in 1964. Marshall taught in a rural boys' high school for 25 years before becoming a full time author.

Marshall has been ranked among the very finest, if not the finest, New Zealand’s short story writers, as reported in the New Zealand Book Council short biography of the author http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Marshall,%20Owen.

Works

• Supper Waltz Wilson, and Other New Zealand Stories. Christchurch : Pegasus, 1979.
• The Master of Big Jingles & Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1982.
• The Day Hemingway Died, and Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1984.
• The Lynx Hunter, and Other Stories. Dunedin : McIndoe, 1987.
• An indirect geography [radio narrative] by Owen Marshall. 1990.
• The Divided World : Selected Stories. Dunedin : John McIndoe, 1989.
• Tomorrow We Save the Orphans : Fiction. Dunedin : John McIndoe, 1992.
• The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories: McIndoe Press, 1993.
• Timeless Land. Painter, Grahame Sydney
  Grahame Sydney
  Grahame Sydney, ONZM is a New Zealand artist, based in the southern South Island region of Otago. His landscapes, which concentrate largely on sparse elements of human impact on Otago's wild natural beauty and the loneliness of individuals in this scenery, possess a style which could be described...
  
  ; poet, Brian Turner
  Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)
  Brian Turner is a New Zealand poet and author. He played hockey for New Zealand in the 1960s; senior cricket in Dunedin and Wellington; and was a veteran road cyclist of note...
  
  ; writer, Owen Marshall; with an introduction by Sam Neill
  Sam Neill
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  . Dunedin : Longacre Press, 1995.
• The Best of Owen Marshall's Short Stories. Auckland : Random House, 1997.
• Harlequin Rex. Auckland: Vintage, 1999. (Novel)
• When Gravity Snaps. Auckland: Vintage, 2002.(Short stories)

Links

• Owen Marshall website
• NZ Book Council Writer's File for Owen Marshall