Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
G'day, mate. Zusak says he based the down to earth dialogue on his home country, Australia.
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What's the secret behind famous writers (Graham Greene, Sylvia Plath, Morris West) being part of the clues for Ed? The author just likes them. Sometimes it's as simple as that. (Source.)
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Markus Zusak won the Michael L. Printz Honor Book in 2005 for I Am the Messenger. (Source.)
The Doorman is actually from another (ahem, failed) book project Zusak started working on. Zusak loved the Rottweiler/German Shepherd slobberer so much that when the book was scrapped, he put him in this book. (Source.)