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 ...

More than a decade after the publication of his last book, the international bestseller The Book Thief, Australian author Markus Zusak returns with a much-anticipated new novel. A family saga, Bridge ...

Here is a small fact — Markus Zusak, author of "The Book Thief," is coming to Iowa City to promote his first novel since that acclaimed text. "I just thought, 'Let’s take everything that ‘The Book ...

Markus Zusak was in a dilemma. He had almost finished his latest book, a memoir called Three Wild Dogs and the Truth. It’s about the chaos, joy, pain, love and sheer panic that Reuben, Archer and ...

NPR's John Ydstie interviews Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, a novel set in World War II Germany with Death himself as the narrator. The book tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a young girl ...