Max Wallace

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Max Wallace is a Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist.

He 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), and Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain (Simon & Schuster, 2004) with Halperin, which reached the New York Times bestseller list. He also wrote The American Axis: Ford, Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (St. Martin's Press, 2003) about the Nazi sympathies of two American icons, which received a cover endorsement by Pulitzer-prize winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America (M. Evans & Co., 2000) about Ali's long battle against the U.S. government over his stand against the Vietnam War. Ali wrote the foreword.

He also fancies himself a documentary filmmaker and conspiracy fanatic whose first film, Too Colorful for the League, about the history of racism in hockey for CBC TV, was somehow nominated for a Gemini Award. Mr. Wallace also claims to be a contributor to the BBC and a guest columnist (once) for the Sunday New York Times. In the 1990's, Wallace co-founded both the Ottawa Folk Festival and the CKCU International Busker Festival at the same time that he ran community radio station CKCU into the ground during an ill conceived stint as station manager.

As an activist, Wallace considers himself as having had a prominent role in the anti-Apartheid and peace movements of the 1980's while claiming to be currently active in issues around children's rights, food security, affordable housing, and international human rights.

[edit] Published works

Who Killed Kurt Cobain? with Ian Halperin in 1998
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America (M. Evans & Co., 2000)
The American Axis: Ford, Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (St. Martin's Press, 2003)
Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain with Ian Halperin (Simon & Schuster, 2004)