For nearly 13 years, Markus Zusak struggled to write “Bridge of Clay,” his first novel since the phenomenal success of “The Book Thief,” which has sold 16 million copies worldwide.

Markus Zusak book events. Friday, Oct. 26: The Mission Viejo Library and A Whale of a Tale Children’s Bookshoppe host an event at 7 p.m. at the Norman P. Murray Community Center, 24932 ...

It’s Markus Zusak’s “weird optimism” that kept him pushing through to the culmination of his latest work. The 44-year-old Australian author came to the Iowa City Public Library Monday night for a stop ...

Thirteen years after the release of his internationally bestselling novel, The Book Thief, author Markus Zusak has emerged with a novel he describes as his most personal yet.

Zusak grew up the youngest of four children in a single-storey brick home that his father, Helmut, built in Engadine in the 1960s. Markus shared a room with his brother Rob, who was two years older.

Australian writer Markus Zusak, son of a house painter and a cleaning woman in Sydney, is a boyish 30 -- young for a five-time novelist. Much too young for such an intimate acquaintance with Death.

Markus Zusak, the phenomenally popular Australian writer, worked on “Bridge of Clay” for two decades, essentially his whole adult life. Such perseverance is awe-inspiring but risky, for all ...

Markus Zusak, Author. Knopf $16.95 (552p) ISBN 978-0-375-83100-3 This hefty volume is an achievement—a challenging book in both length and subject, and best suited to sophisticated older readers.

Markus Zusak. Arthur A. Levine: 502 pp., $19.99, for ages 12 and up. There’s nothing like success to inspire reissues of an author’s early work. It happens all the time with adult fiction.

The Book Thief author Markus Zusak explains why failure is good for you at TEDxSydney talk. MARKUS Zusak is a best-selling author whose novel has been adapted into an Oscar-nominated film but he ...