Information about Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak was born on June 23, 1975 in Sydney, Australia. Markus won the award Book Sense of the year award for children's literature. Markus had the idea of a book thief in past books. At first he wanted to make the story present time but it just didn't add up. So he decided to use what his parents saw growing up in Nazi, Germany and Austria. With all those ideas he got the book thief.