Martin Edmond (born 1952 in Ohakune) is a New Zealand author and screenplay writer.
[1] He has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University with his dissertation on Australian artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira.
[2] Edmond has written screenplays for several New Zealand feature films, including Illustrious Energy (1987);[3] The Footstep Man (1991) and Terra Nova (1996).
They include Streets of Music (1980), Houses, Days, Skies (1988), The Autobiography of My Father (1992), and The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont (1999).
[1] His 2017 book The Expatriates (Bridget Williams Books, ISBN 978-19885-33179) is a history of four extraordinary New Zealanders: Harold Williams, Ronald Syme, John Platts-Mills, and Joe Trapp; Edmond used research material passed on by the late James McNeish.