Tucker Max

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Tucker Max

Tucker Tibor Max (b. 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and the creator of www.tuckermax.com, which features explicit stories about his drinking and sexual encounters, a heavily-moderated messageboard and a "hook-up application" derived from the date application that was the genesis of his site. Max lives in the Flatiron District of Manhattan in New York, New York. Max runs Rudius Media, an Internet publishing company.

Max grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Law, Letters and Society from University of Chicago. He graduated with a J.D. from Duke University School of Law. While at Duke, he posted a "date application" online and later transferred it to Tuckermax.com. In June 2003, Max appeared in "Sex2K", an episode of MTV's True Life.

Max penned The Definitive Book of Pick-Up Lines (2001) and Belligerence and Debauchery: The Tucker Max Stories (2003) and self-published them. In January 2006, Citadel Press released Max's paperback, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell and it earned a place on the New York Times Bestseller supplemental list. Publishers Weekly announced in September 2006 that Simon Spotlight plans to publish a followup, Assholes Finish First, in January 2008.

In the courtroom

In May 2003, Max's ex-girlfriend Katy Johnson, who had won pageants to become Miss Vermont 1999 and Miss Vermont USA 2001, sued him for posting the sordid details of their relationship on his website, claiming it was an invasion of her privacy. As a result, Palm Beach, Fifteenth Circuit Judge Diana Lewis, issued a ruling ordering Max to immediately remove the story from his site. Subsequently, after substantial legal wrangling that included an amicus curiae brief by the American Civil Liberties Union, the case was dismissed.

In March 2006, Max was sued by Anthony DiMeo for libel after messageboard threads attacked a New Year's Eve 2005 party..

In the mass media

Max was pictured with Maddox in "Dude, Here's My Book", a 2006 New York Times Sunday Style article by Warren St. John spotlighting the growing genre of "fratire". Also in 2006, Max, Maddox and DrunkasaurusRex premiered a two-hour test show on Sirius Satellite Radio's Maxim Radio station in which they told stories, took questions from listeners and discussed women, sex, alcohol and pop culture.

In Summer 2006, Max appeared on the Opie and Anthony show on XM Satellite Radio. After Max told a few of his stories, the hosts cast doubt on their truthfulness. Max was then led to believe his headphones had broken. While Max's headphones were off, the audience was told Max was lying and later he was compared to author James Frey. When leaving the studio, Opie threw his book at a window, meanwhile Jim Norton tore the same book to pieces. Max left the building, allegedly giving show producer Erik "E-Rock" Nagel the middle finger. No reference to the appearance can be found on Max's website.

Bibliography

• Assholes Finish First (2008) ISBN 1-4169-3874-5
• I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (2006) ISBN 0-8065-2728-5
• Belligerence and Debauchery: The Tucker Max Stories (2003) ISBN 1-4116-0062-2
• The Definitive Book of Pick-Up Lines (2001) ISBN 0-595-17671-2

External links

• TuckerMax.com
• A trip into the weird netherworld of Tucker Max from February 9, 2006, News & Observer.
• Tucker Max is a Douchebag Blog critical of Tucker Max.