Born in Sydney, Marion von Adlerstein worked as an advertising copywriter in Melbourne, London and New York in the fifties and sixties. Between 1976 and 1998 she held several posts with Vogue Australia publications, including Travel Director. During those years Marion wrote about many subjects, including fashion, beauty and interiors. She is the author of the non-fiction guides The Passionate Shopper (Penguin) and The Penguin Book of Etiquette and the novels The Freudian Slip and One More Slip.
