10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack
Max Brooks
Friday, 07 Mar 2014 at 11:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide, is considered to be one of the world's foremost Zombie experts. He won an Emmy as a writer for Saturday Night Live and is the son of legendary comedian Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. His other New York Times bestsellers include the graphic novel The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks and World War Z, which has now been made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. Even the CDC has embraced this pop culture phenomenon, citing Brooks and the Zombie Apocalypse in its call for disaster and survival preparedness.Read more about Max Brooks in this New York Times Magazine profile:
Max Brooks Is Not Kidding About the Zombie Apocalypse
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