Max Wallace

Max Wallace
Born	Maxwell Wallace United States
Occupation	Writer, filmmaker, human rights activist
Language	English
Nationality	Canadian
Ethnicity	Jewish
Citizenship	Canadian
Education	University
Period	present
Genre	non-fiction

Max Wallace is a Canadian journalist and historian specializing in the Holocaust, human rights in sport, and popular culture. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, and long-time human rights activist.

This work, about the Nazi sympathies of two American icons, received a cover endorsement by two-time Pulitzer-prize winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr..

As a former music journalist, Wallace coauthored the international bestseller Who Killed Kurt Cobain? with Ian Halperin in 1998, (described as a "judicious presentation of explosive material" by The New Yorker).

Published in 2004, Wallace wrote Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain with Halperin, which reached the New York Times bestseller list.

Written in 2000, this book covers Muhammad Ali's long battle against the US government over his stand against the Vietnam War. Ali wrote the foreword. In 2013, the book was adapted into a movie directed by two-time Oscar nominee Stephen Frears, starring Danny Glover, Christopher Plummer and Frank Langella. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2013.

Wallace is also a documentary filmmaker whose first film, Too Colorful for the League, about the history of racism in hockey for CBC TV, was nominated for a Gemini Award. Wallace has also contributed to the BBC and the Sunday New York Times. His second film, Schmelvis, had a US theatrical release and played in more than 75 film festivals around the world. In the 1990s, Wallace co-founded both the Ottawa Folk Festival and the Ottawa International Busker Festival when employed as station manager for CKCU-FM, Canada's largest community radio station.

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