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.