Owen Marshall, CNZM (born 1941, Te Kuiti, New Zealand) is the pen name of Owen Marshall Jones, a short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister and older brother of Rhys Jones, he came of age in Blenheim and Timaru, and graduated from the University of Canterbury with an MA in English in 1964. Marshall taught in a rural boys' high school for 25 years before becoming a full-time author.
Marshall has been ranked among the very finest, if not the finest, New Zealand’s short story writers, as reported in the New Zealand Book Council short biography of the author.
Owen Thomas Marshall (17 September 1892 – 18 May 1963) was an English professional footballer of the 1920s. Born in Nottingham, he joined Gillingham from Chelsea in 1921 and went on to make 39 appearances for the club in The Football League. He left to join Maidstone United in 1923.