Max Brooks

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May 22, 1972 in New York City, The United States

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http://maxbrooks.com/

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Horror

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Brooks is the son of director Mel Brooks and the late actress Anne Bancroft. He is a 1994 graduate of Pitzer College. His wife, Michelle, is a screenwriter, and the couple have a son, Henry.

Max Brooks lives in New York City but is prepared to move to a more remote and defensible location at a moment's notice.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 63,173 ratings · 7,944 reviews · 13 distinct works

	World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 4.14 avg rating — 41,891 ratings — published 2006 — 40 editions	My rating:
	The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From The Living Dead 3.90 avg rating — 18,425 ratings — published 2003 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks, Ibraim Roberson (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 1,348 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds (G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels)) by Max Brooks, Howard Chaykin, Antonio Fuso 3.57 avg rating — 54 ratings	My rating:
	The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attack; Downtown LA by Max Brooks, Ibraim Roberson 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Zombie Survival Guide Journal 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Extinction Parade 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Closure, Limited 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology by Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), John Connolly (Contributor), Derek Nikitas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.77 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Living Dead 2 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Kirkman, Steven Barnes 3.95 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Zombies: The Recent Dead by Paula Guran (Editor), Steve Duffy (Goodreads Author), Max Brooks 3.54 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dark Delicacies II: Fear: More Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World's Greatest Horror Writers by Del Howison (Editor / Contributor), Jeff Gelb (Editor / Contributor), Ray Harryhausen (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	G.I. Joe: Tales from the Cobra Wars by Gabriele Dell'Otto, Max Brooks, Chuck Dixon 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“Use your head; cut off theirs.”
― Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide

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“Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”
― Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide

tags: education , school , zombies

83 people liked it

“Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.”
― Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, by Max Brooks

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