- published: 22 Oct 2011
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Maximillian Michael "Max" Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American horror author and screenwriter. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. Brooks is also a television and voice-over actor.
Max Brooks was born in New York City, the son of actress Anne Bancroft and director, producer, writer, and actor Mel Brooks.
Brooks is dyslexic and attended Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. He studied history at Pitzer College in Claremont, California but dropped out. He spent a semester at the University of the Virgin Islands. He graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. in 1994.
From 2001 to 2003, Brooks was a member of the writing team at Saturday Night Live.
Brooks' first book, The Zombie Survival Guide, was published in 2003 by Three Rivers Press. The book described in depth the creation of and lives of zombies. The book was later followed up in 2009 by The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, a graphic novel depicting several of the events detailed in the book's latter section.
Actors: Jeremiah Lewis (editor), Jeremiah Lewis (producer), Jeremiah Lewis (producer), Jeremiah Lewis (writer), Jeremiah Lewis (director), Jay Lalime (actor), James Lewis (producer), James Lewis (actor), Lauren Parker (producer), Travis Nobles (composer), Scott Gallimore (actor), Chris Williams (actor), Paula Lewis (producer),
Plot: The story of Calhoun (Cal) and Renfield (Wren), two Texas residents who find themselves in the middle of an unexplained zombie crisis. With Cal's home under attack by a ravaging horde of "dead-eyed suburbanites," the two must escape despite Cal's misgivings and insistence that Max Brooks', author of the Zombie Survival Guide, says that the home is the safest place. But as usual in these sorts of stories, an easy escape is not going to be...easy. And as you might expect, not all goes as planned.
Keywords: flesh-eating, human-eaten-by-zombies, suburban-terror, texas, undead, zombie, zombie-spoof, zombie-survival