Award-winning Young Adult and Children's author
Garth Nix was born in 1963. He grew up in Canberra,
the federal capital of Australia. After working briefly for
the Australian Government, Garth took a long holiday
in Europe, returning in 1983 to study for a B.A. in Professional
Writing from the University of Canberra. Around this
time, he also put in four years as a part-time soldier
(or "weekend warrior") with the Australian Army Reserve.
After taking his degree in 1986, he worked in a bookshop
for some time, then moved to Sydney, where he had various
jobs in the publishing industry, from sales rep to
publicist, until in 1991 he became a
senior editor with a major multinational publisher.