John Marlyn

Who was John Marlyn?

John Marlyn was an Austro-Hungarian-born Canadian writer who also used the pseudonym Vincent Reid when writing science fiction.

Marlyn was born in Nagybecskerek, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary but grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after arriving in Canada as an infant. During the depression-era 1930s, he found work as a script reader for a film studio in England. Just before World War II, he returned to Canada and worked as a writer for the Canadian government in Ottawa. He also taught creative writing at Carleton University 1963–1967.

Marlyn received a Beta Sigma Phi award for his first novel, a tale of poor immigrant life during the 1920s, set in Winnipeg's North End.

Marlyn's papers were acquired by the University of Calgary in 1987.

He lived in the Canary Islands until he died of a heart attack.