Last year I was in the middle of a rehearsal for The Book Thief’s premiere, watching a prop book being burned, when I learned that one of my novels had been banned in a school district in Florida.

Few recent novels have made as much of a splash as Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, which quickly became a worldwide bestseller upon its publication in 2005. The book — which focuses on an adopted ...

On Monday evening, March 28, Markus Zusak, the 35-year old Australian author of The Book Thief, will be welcomed by an entire town of readers at the Greenwich Library. His widely acclaimed novel ...