Max Brallier facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Max Brallier Fernandes.
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Brallier in 2017 at the New York Comic Con
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| Born | September 8, 1983 Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Pen name | Jack Chabert |
| Occupation | Author |
Max Brallier (born September 8, 1983) is a children's book author and has written more than 30 books. 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.
Personal life and education
Max Brallier was born on September 8, 1983 in Belmont, Massachusetts. He moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was 4. He moved to Reading, Massachusetts in third grade in 1991, where he attended Joshua Eaton Elementary School. He then attended Parker Middle School, on which the middle school in The Last Kids on Earth is based. He graduated from Reading Memorial High School in 2001 and then Ithaca College in 2005 with a degree in film.
As a child he liked David Macaulay and Where's Waldo books. His favorite book of all time is Bart Simpson's Guide to Life.
He has one daughter, Lila, with his wife, Alyse.
Career
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), although in other sources he says he wanted to write stories from the age of 14. He began writing children's books under the pen name Jack Chabert in 2014, starting with the book series Eerie Elementary, 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.
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.
In 2019, he co-wrote and produced the film VFW for Fangoria.
