This Day in Halloween: Max Brooks -- author of "World War Z" and "Zombie Survival Guide" -- is born in New York City in 1972. / Illustration by Uttara Ranjit
Max Brooks is born in New York City in 1972. The actor and former Saturday Night Live writer is mostly known as the author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and The Zombie Survival Guide, and the comics The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks and The Extinction Parade.
