19 Facts About Max Brooks

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Maximillian Michael Brooks was born on May 22,1972 and is an American actor and author.

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Max Brooks is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft.

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Max Brooks is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.

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Max Brooks is the son of actress Anne Bancroft and actor, director, producer, and writer Mel Brooks.

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Max Brooks's father is Jewish, while his mother was an Italian-American Catholic.

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Max Brooks is dyslexic and recalled that during the time in which he was growing up:.

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Max Brooks took, every year, all of my school books that I had to read to the Institute for the Blind and had them all read onto audio cassette so I could listen to my reading list.

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Max Brooks studied at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history.

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Max Brooks attended graduate school, studying film at American University in Washington, DC.

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From 2001 to 2003, Max Brooks was a member of the writing team at Saturday Night Live.

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In 2003, Max Brooks wrote his first book, The Zombie Survival Guide, a satirical survival manual about zombies.

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In 2006, Max Brooks wrote the follow-up World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, a novel on the same subject, set in the ten years following a zombie apocalypse.

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Max Brooks wrote the introduction for the hardcover collected edition of Dynamite Entertainment's zombie miniseries Raise the Dead, released in 2007.

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In 2014, Broadway Books published The Harlem Hellfighters, a graphic novel which portrays a fictionalized account of the African American 369th Infantry Regiment's experiences in World War I, written by Max Brooks and illustrated by Caanan White.

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Max Brooks wrote the story for the 2016 film The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon.

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In 2016, Max Brooks was invited to MineCon and announced that he was working on a new novel based on Minecraft, titled Minecraft: The Island, and in 2021, he published the sequel, Minecraft: The Mountain.

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Max Brooks has a career voicing animation: his voice has been featured in the animated shows Batman Beyond, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Justice League, and All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series.

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Max Brooks appeared on Spike TV series Deadliest Warrior, in which he represented the zombie team in the "Vampires vs Zombies" episode, as one of the Zombie experts along with Matt Mogk, founder of the Zombie Research Society.

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Max Brooks has been married to playwright Michelle Kholos since 2003.