Max Phillips

Max Phillips’s novels, which have included Snakebite
Sonnet (Little, Brown) and The Artist’s Wife
(Henry Holt), have won rave reviews in The New
Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, and
other major publications. His short fiction and poetry
have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic
Monthly and Story. Under the name Forrest DeVoe
Jr., Phillips is also the author of the Mallory & Morse
series of 60s-style spy novels, starting with Into the
Volcano (HarperCollins). Mr. Phillips has received an
Academy of American Poets Prize and a fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts, and was nominated for the
Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America for
Fade to Blonde.