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. Bridge of Clay tells the ...

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 ...

Markus Zusak, acclaimed and best-selling author most famously of The Book Thief, is getting back on the road. In advance of the publication of his epic new novel Bridge of Clay, Zusak has exclusively ...

“Look at this,” Zusak says proudly as Frosty ends his run, via a brief but vainless attempt to frolic in a patch of bush, settles on his back, paws in the air, and begins to tear at a stick. “This is ...

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 ...

Youngsters thronged the auditorium that was about to host The Book Thief, a session between its author Markus Zusak and Tishani Doshi. The book, set in Nazi Germany in 1939, is about Liesel, a ...

Today he is a bestselling author. He lives in a grand home in one of Sydney’s loveliest suburbs with his wife, two children and their raucous dog, Frosty, whose regular walks to a nearby park bookend ...

Author Markus Zusak joins Talk of Iowa to discuss his latest book: Bridge of Clay. Thirteen years after the release of his internationally bestselling novel, The Book Thief, author Markus Zusak has ...