Garth Nix

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Garth Nix (born 1963) is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom Series. Garth Nix is not a pseudonym. Garth Nix is currently writing the Keys to the Kingdom series.


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[edit] Biography

Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army band outside playing ‘Hail the Conquering Hero Comes’ or possibly ‘Roll Out the Barrel’. Garth left Melbourne at an early age for Canberra (the federal capital) and stayed there till he was nineteen, when he left to drive around the UK in a beat-up Austin with a trunk full of books and a Silver-Reed typewriter. Despite a wheel literally falling off the Austin, Garth survived to return to Australia and study at the University of Canberra. After finishing his degree in 1986 he worked in a bookshop, then as a book publicist, a publisher’s sales representative, and editor. Along the way he was also a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve, serving in an Assault Pioneer platoon for four years. Garth left publishing to work as a public relations and marketing consultant from 1994-1997, until he became a full-time writer in 1998. He was a full-time author for a year and then became a part-time literary agent in 1999. In January 2002 Garth went back to writing full-time again, despite his belief that full-time writing explains the strange behaviour of many authors.

He currently lives near Coogee Beach, Sydney, with his wife, Anna, and his sons, Thomas and Edward Nix.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] The Old Kingdom series

Also known as the Abhorsen Trilogy

[edit] Companion Books

[edit] The Seventh Tower series

[edit] The Keys to the Kingdom series

[edit] Very Clever Baby series

These books were essentially self-published (though later republished by Text Media in Melbourne) and although aimed at "Very Clever Babies Aged 3-6 Months", some help is needed from parents with the long words such as "ichthyologist" used by the character Freddy the Fish.

  • 1988 Very Clever Baby's First Reader
  • ???? Very Clever Baby's Ben*Hur
  • ???? Very Clever Baby's First Christmas
  • ???? Very Clever Baby's Guide to the Greenhouse Effect

[edit] Other works

  • 1990 The Ragwitch
  • 1997 Shade's Children
  • 2000 Serena and the Sea Serpent
  • 2007 One Beastly Beast: Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales — a book of short stories for younger readers, including Serena and the Sea Serpent
  • 200? A Confusion of Princes — a forthcoming young adult space opera novel [1]

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