Born in Big D about a year before JFK's assassination in downtown, 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. In 7th grade, he was recruited as a reporter for his junior high newspaper.

An early appreciation and love of classic and really bad 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. This child who began to read at age 2(and has an IQ of 144) adapted his novel into a make-believe television show, airing Friday nights after The Partridge Family (meaning The Odd Couple broadcast elsewhere)

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

To sharpen his pen and wit regularly, he takes and gives workshops and classes 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 late, lamented A Different Light bookstore and designed custom walking tours for private parties and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

Max worked as a volunteer docent for the Los Angeles Conservancy, leading walking tours of historic neighborhoods and movie studios: lobbying to save landmarks such as Bullock's Wilshire and The Ambassador Hotel. He was recognized for 15 years of outstanding service to educate and further preservation awareness. 

Taking his mental encyclopedia of facts to further his passion for educating others, he refreshed, revised, developed and conducted open-air bus tours for Los Angeles' own Museum of Neon Art,an event profiled on NPR. 

Max Pierce describes himself as a 'servant leader' holding volunteer positions with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and enjoyed a successful fashion industry career traveling the world as a buyer, a store manager and even revising the mission statement for venerable Brooks Brothers. 

He lives in historic Hollywood in a mid-century high rise. He always believed that a life could really be like the movies. And he is the proof.