Born in the Lone Star State about a year before JFK's assassination in downtown Dallas, Max Pierce knew from age five that although his roots ran deep into the Texas earth, his future would be in Los Angeles. 

A child of television, watching the news reports of another Kennedy death, this time at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and later the M-G-M Auction and Manson Family trials, only piqued his desire to move to a city Where Big Things Happen. 

An early appreciation and love of classic films served up on late night TV and revival houses completely warped his sense of the universe. 

At age nine, he began his first novel, a shameless re-working of Little House on the Prairie  transported to modern day California.

Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1988, he immersed himself into learning the history of his adopted city, and has written extensively on Hollywood, Los Angeles and cultural history for such diverse publications as Classic Images and online for The Advocate.  

To further his talent and stay fresh, he takes numerous workshops and classes at UCLA and loves digging into files at both the Downtown and AMPAS libraries. From 2003-2005 he facilitated a bi-weekly writing group headquartered at West Hollywood's A Different Light bookstore. 

For a decade and a half, Max worked as a volunteer docent for the Los Angeles Conservancy, giving walking tours of historic Los Angeles neighborhoods and movie studios; lobbying to save landmarks such as Bullocks Wilshire and The Ambassador Hotel and furthering preservation awareness, a task not without frustration.

He has also written and narrated summer bus tours for the Museum of Neon Art,an event profiled on NPR.  

He lives in historic Hollywood,works way too hard in downtown Los Angeles and plays (but not often enough) in Palm Springs.

His first novel, The Master of Seacliff, a queer gothic romantic mystery, received wide acclaim and was nominated for 2 Lambda Literary Awards. Mr. Pierce has also penned dozens of journalism pieces on Hollywood history, contributed to a select number of fiction anthologies, and written honestly and humorously about his challenging childhood in Identity Envy and Walking Higher, Gay Men Write About the Death of their Mothers.

Mr. Pierce is currently typing away at too many different projects, with his next novel due to be completed by December, 2008. He enjoys telling stories and appreciates your interest.