Markus Zusak
Brittany Harrell LIS 618 Author Study: Written Summary Due: March 5, 2016 Markus Zusak About The Author Markus Zusak was born in 1975 in Sydney, Australia to immigrant parents, a German mother and Austrian father (Hudson, 2010). He has published five books between 1999 and 2005 in his native country, with many of them gaining international success (“Markus Zusak”). He still lives in Sydney with his wife and two children (“Markus Zusak”). Currently, Zusak is preparing for a US book tour to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of his most popular work, The Book Thief (Zusak, 2016). His writing has won a variety of awards over the years in various countries. Most notably, Zusak won the Margaret A Edwards Award in 2014 (“2014 Margaret A Edwards Award”). He was also a 2006 Printz Honoree for I am the Messenger (“Markus Zusak”). About the Project Because Zusak is an Australian author, his novels have been published differently in each country. In the United States, only four of his five books were published as individual novels. The fifth, also known as the first in the Wolfe brothers or Underdogs trilogy, was only published as part one a combined set with the other two in the trilogy. All five books were read for this assignment but, in order to read the fifth book, the combined trilogy is the one cited throughout this discussion when referring to direct page numbers. If the individual novel is being cited but not direct page numbers, the citation will refer simply to that book instead of the combined trilogy.
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