Max Brallier | |
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 Brallier in 2017 at the New York Comic Con | |
| Born | September 8, 1983 Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Pen name | Jack Chabert |
| Occupation | Author |
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Max Brallier (born September 8, 1983) is a children's book author and has written more than 30 books. [1] He is best known for his New York Times bestselling series The Last Kids on Earth , which has been made into a TV series by Netflix. [2]
Max Brallier was born on September 8, 1983 [3] [4] in Belmont, Massachusetts. [5] He moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was 4. [5] He moved to Reading, Massachusetts in third grade [6] in 1991, where he attended Joshua Eaton Elementary School. [5] He then attended Parker Middle School, [5] on which the middle school in The Last Kids on Earth is based. [6] He graduated from Reading Memorial High School in 2001 and then Ithaca College in 2005 with a degree in film. [5]
As a child he liked David Macaulay and Where's Waldo books. [7] His favorite book of all time is Bart Simpson's Guide to Life . [8]
He has one daughter, Lila, with his wife, Alyse. [9]
Brallier previously worked in marketing at St. Martin's Press and as a game designer for the virtual world Poptropica. He says he first knew he wanted to be writer after he published his first book, a coffee table book written for adults called Reasons to Smoke (2007), [10] although in other sources he says he wanted to write stories from the age of 14. [7] He began writing children's books under the pen name Jack Chabert in 2014, starting with the book series Eerie Elementary, [11] and the graphic novel Poptropica: Mystery of the Map (2016). He also has written books under his own name for LEGO, Adventure Time, and Steven Universe, among others. [9]
In 2015 he published the first in his series Galactic Hot Dogs as well as the first book in the Last Kids on Earth series. [9]
In 2019, he co-wrote and produced the film VFW for Fangoria.
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