Max Brooks Public Profile: Family and Career Facts

Maximilian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American writer. He is the son of actors Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks' writing focuses on zombie stories. He was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.

== Early life == Brooks was born on May 22, 1972, in Manhattan, New York City. He is the son of actors Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks. His father is Jewish, while his mother was an Italian-American Catholic. Brooks is dyslexic, and recalled that while he was growing up:

...they didn't even call it a disability back then; it was just "laziness," "goofing off," "you're not trying hard enough." "You can do it but you don't want to do it" — that was a big one of my teachers. And my mother, one of the greatest, most successful actresses of her day, gave up her career, put her career on the shelf, to raise me, to be my educational advocate and to teach herself about dyslexia. ... She took, every year, all of my school books that I had to read to the Institute for the Blind and had them all read onto audio cassette so I could listen to my reading list. And if I hadn't been able to do that, I wouldn't have graduated high school. I can literally say...

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