Max Brallier Fernandes. | |
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Born | Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. | September 8, 1983
Pen name | Jack Chabert |
Occupation | Author |
Website | |
maxbrallier.com |
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.