John Robert Marlow is a screenwriter, novelist, freelance journalist, researcher, and editor. His Nano action screenplay (based upon his tech-thriller Nano novel) is now in development with director-producer Jan de Bont—whose credits include Speed, Twister, and Minority Report.

John's screenplay Snowjob attracted the attention of producer Julie Richardson, who found it so intriguing that—upon learning John had moved from his last known address—she hired a private detective to find him. That script, a romantic adventure-comedy, was subsequently developed in concert with Julie's Imaginarium Entertainment and ICM Executive Story Editor Christopher Lockhart. (Snowjob was then optioned by Imaginarium.) Julie discovered, developed, and produced the DreamWorks film Collateral, written by Stuart Beattie and starring Tom Cruise (directed by Michael Mann).

John placed as a finalist (top 10 of 5,489 entries) in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Program of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (the organization which awards the Oscars), and his Nano screenplay has been mentioned in both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

His first novel, Nano, was published in hardcover by Forge/St. Martin's Press in 2004 ("Marlow's debut is a real page-turner"—Kirkus Reviews), and was immediately honored with the Nanotechnology Now Editor's Choice Award ("Plausible, scientifically accurate, and timely ... the most important piece of fiction written to date") and declared Book of the Month by the World Transhumanist Association. (A revised edition of the Nano novel, with commentary by Center for Responsible Nanotechnology founder Chris Phoenix, was published in paperback in June, 2005.) The novel, in combination with several articles and an online nanotechnology column, led to John's nomination for the 2004 Foresight Institute Prize in Communication—the highest honor in nanotechnology journalism.

John's nonfiction work and photography have appeared in numerous print and online publications, with topics ranging from automobile engine buildups to robotic surgeons, invisible lasers, Nobel laureate Sir Francis Crick's views on neural nets and human vision, and the global security implications of emerging and disruptive technologies.

In addition to writing, John has acted as a website content creator and editor, and as researcher for books and for television documentaries aired by the world's largest broadcaster. Since 2001, he has worked as a developmental editor, upgrading novel manuscripts and screenplays written by others to the point where they can be offered for sale. John joined The Editorial Department in 2006, and currently heads the company's Screenplay Division.

Born in Pennsylvania, John currently resides in Los Angeles, and occasionally travels to South Africa. His interests include antiques, film, literature, art, architecture, comics, music, leading-edge technologies, history, and photography. John's storybookers.com website is the #1 Google hit on "storybook architecture," and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and Cottages & Bungalows magazine.

John is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the nonprofit Lifeboat Foundation.