
Max Brooks is The New York Times bestselling author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. He has been called ”the Studs Terkel of zombie journalism.“ 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.
Series
Books

Minecraft
The Mountain
2021

Strategy Strikes Back
How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
2018

World War Z
The Lost Files: A Companion to the Abridged Edition
2013

The Essential Max Brooks
World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide
2006

Zombies
Encounters with the Hungry Dead
2009

World War Z
An Oral History of the Zombie War
2006

Minecraft
The Village: An Official Minecraft Novel
2023

Winning Westeros
How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military Conflict
2019

The Zombie Survival Guide
Complete Protection from the Living Dead
2003

Devolution
A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
2020

Minecraft
The Island
2017

The Harlem Hellfighters
2014

The Zombie Survival Guide Journal
2011

Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Stories
2011

Tiger Chair
2024

The Zombie Survival Guide
Recorded Attacks
2009