Tucker Max

Max, along with George Ouzounian (known more commonly by his pen name, Maddox), is considered a founding author of the 21st-century literary genre "fratire".

Tucker Max (born September 27, 1975) is an American author and public speaker.

Tucker grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Blair Academy in 1995, where he was voted "most egotistical".

He graduated from the University of Chicago in three years, with a B.A. in Law, Letters, and Society in 1998.

He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it as the result of a bet in 2000.

He attended Duke Law School on an academic scholarship, earning a J.D. in 2001.

Max resides with his wife, Veronica, and four children near Austin, Texas.

Max began his career by publishing The Definitive Book of Pick-Up Lines (2001), which he followed up by Belligerence and Debauchery: The Tucker Max Stories (2003).

He was the facilitator of the website "Tard Blog", from 2002 to 2003.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell was a New York Times #1 Bestseller and made the Best Seller List each year from 2006 to 2012.

In 2006, he began development of a television pilot for Comedy Central, but the project was canceled reportedly due to a dispute with Sony about feature film rights.

His first New York Times Best Seller, "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell," was released in 2006.

In September 2006, Simon Spotlight Publishing, a division of Simon & Schuster, announced that Max was contracted to release a book in January 2008, Assholes Finish First.

The term, combining "fraternity" and "satire," was introduced by The New York Times reporter Warren St. John in a 2006 article titled Dude, Here's My Book.

The genre is characterized by masculine themes and could be considered the male equivalent of chick lit.

Both Max and Maddox dislike the label, pointing out that neither of them were ever in fraternities.

In 2008, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Max was producing a movie based on his bestselling book, also titled I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.

He detailed the process on a production blog hosted on the movie's website.

Actor Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife) portrayed Max in the film.

The film was panned by critics and earned $1.4 million at the box office on a $7 million budget.

Max attributed the poor box office performance of the film to oversights in marketing, but expressed hope it would find an audience on DVD.

It has sold over one million copies worldwide, including 400,000 copies in 2009.

His book was subsequently made into a feature film of the same title, which received generally negative reviews and numerous critics considered to be one of the worst films of the year.

He was a 2009 Time 100 finalist based on internet votes, although he did not make the magazine list.

Tucker Max's father, Dennis Max, is a restaurant owner in South Florida.

According to Max, his parents met at "one of George Jung's coke parties in Manhattan Beach".

Tucker's grandmother was Jewish.

He reportedly received a $300,000 advance for Assholes Finish First, and released a revised and expanded edition of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell in January 2009.

In 2010, he released a book titled Assholes Finish First, and in 2012 released the books Hilarity Ensues and Sloppy Seconds: The Tucker Max Leftovers.

Undisclosed delays pushed the release date to September 2010.

In 2011, he was a guest speaker at the Ancestral Health Symposium, giving a presentation entitled From cave to cage: Mixed martial arts in ancestral health.

In January 2012, Max claimed he was leaving behind the lifestyle he had described in his books and that he had been in psychotherapy.

In February 2012 a publicity campaign for his book Hilarity Ensues led to his account with the company Sponsored Tweets being banned for "ethics violations".

Starting summer 2014, Max began collaborating with Geoffrey Miller, a of evolutionary psychology professor at the University of New Mexico.

Together with Miller, Tucker created a podcast called The Mating Grounds.

In November 2014, Max published his experience of working with Melissa Gonzalez, CEO of the Lionesque Group for her book The Pop-Up Paradigm – the first project of his company Scribe Media.

Founded along with startup founder Zach Obront, Scribe Media writes and publishes books for entrepreneurs who wish to have their own book but don't have the time, ability, or patience to do it the conventional way.

After launching Scribe Media, Max stepped aside from day-to-day decisions, and hired JT McCormick to serve as CEO in his place.

In September 2015, Max and Dr. Miller released Mate: Become the Man Women Want, an advice book about men's sexual strategies published by Little, Brown and Company.

In 2017, Max ghostwrote Tiffany Haddish's memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, which was released in December 2017 by Simon & Schuster and debuted at number 15 on The New York Times best-seller list.