The Book Thief By Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak was born in 1975 in Sydney, Australia. He was the youngest of four children of immigrant German and Austrian parents Zusak's parents could not speak much English, but they wanted their children to know the language very well. They strongly encouraged the children to read and talk in English. When Zusak turned 16, he tried for a degree in teaching at the University of Sydney. He worked briefly as a janitor, a painter, and a high school English teacher. In 1999, Zusak published his first novel The Underdog. After writing that trilogy, he wrote his most famous work of The Book Thief. The Book Thief is based off the stories Zusak's parents told him about growing up in Germany and Austria in World War II. But of course some of it is