Max Wallace

Max Wallace is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, based in Toronto, Canada. His first film, Too Colourful For the League, a CBC TV documentary about the history of Blacks in hockey, was nominated for a 2001 Gemini Award (Canada's equivalent of an Emmy). In 2002, he directed the feature documentary Schmelvis, which had a US theatrical release and played in more than 75 film festivals in 9 different countries worldwide. In 1999, he won a Felix Award for best Quebec music video with his colleagues Evan Beloff and Ari Cohen for producing the video for Jean LeLoup's "La Vie est Laide." Max is also a New York Times bestselling author for his book, Love and Death (Simon & Schuster, 2004) about the last days of Kurt Cobain. His other books include The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich (St. Martin's Press, 2003), about the Nazi collaboration of two American icons; and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America (M.