Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Markus Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian novelist. He grew up in Sydney, the youngest of four children of immigrant parents — his mother Elisabeth from Germany, his father Helmut from Austria — and the stories they told of wartime Europe fed directly into his best-known work. He is the author of The Book Thief (2005), translated into more than forty languages and a fixture on the New York Times bestseller list for over a decade, and of I Am the Messenger (published in Australia as The M...