Background
Marion was born in 1981 near Seattle and has always lived either in or around the city.
Marion was born in 1981 near Seattle and has always lived either in or around the city.
He is best known as the best-selling author of the "zombie romance" novel Warm Bodies. He has also lived in Portland. Before Warm Bodies, Marion had self-published three other novels.
Warm Bodies was published by Atria Books on October 14, 2010.
lieutenant received critical acclaim from publications such as The Guardian, The Seattle Times and Paste Magazine and authors Audrey Niffenegger and Stephenie Meyer. Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the novel, and it has been made into the film Warm Bodies, written and directed by Jonathan Levine and starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich.
The movie was released on February 1, 2013. On January 28, 2013, the prequel novella to Warm Bodies called The New Hunger was published by Zola Books as an eBook.
Marion has also confirmed that he is working on a sequel.
Marion also has one short story published, "Jerry Lives Forever," with the literary nonprofit organization Tethered By Letters. Marion is also a photographer and a painter. According to his Simon & Schuster biography, Marion decided "to forgo college in favor of direct experience." He began writing while still in high school, and self-published three novels before Warm Bodies.