Tucker Max
Tucker Tibor Max (born 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and the creator of Tuckermax.com, which features explicit stories about his excessive drinking and sexual encounters and a heavily-moderated messageboard. Max lives in the Flatiron District of Manhattan in New York, New York. Max also runs Rudius Media. [1]
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. [2] While at Duke, he posted a "date application", where people could apply to date him, online and later transferred it to his eponymous domain name. The growing popularity of his site led to a June 2003 appearance in "Sex2K", an episode of MTV's True Life[3] as well as a May 2003 lawsuit filed by ex-girlfriend (two times Miss Vermont) Katy Johnson claiming the sordid details of their relationship posted at his site[4] were an invasion of her privacy. A judge ordered Max to remove the story from his site,[5] but the case was dismissed following substantial legal wrangling that included an amicus curiae brief by the American Civil Liberties Union.[6]
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[7] and it earned a place on the New York Times Bestseller supplemental list. Shortly thereafter, Max and the book were featured in a New York Times Sunday Style article on the fratire genre. [8] In summer 2006, Max appeared on the Opie and Anthony radio show (video available http://www.broadcaster.com/video/player.php?clip=6230) where the hosts cast doubt on the truthfulness of his stories and strongly felt that Max could not produce, amongst other things, an alleged videotape documenting a crucial element of Max's "Tucker tries buttsex; hilarity does not ensue" story, which he told earlier on the show that day. The hosts later led him to believe his headphones had broken, ripped the cover off of Max's book, and threw it violently at the studio wall as Max left the studio. [9]
In 2006, a followup book, Assholes Finish First was announced for January 2008 publication by Simon Spotlight. Max also signed a deal with Comedy Central to write a sitcom pilot script mixing his Web stories and the day-to-day of Max and his friends.[10][11]
Bibliography
- Assholes Finish First (2008) ISBN 1-4169-3874-5
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (2006) ISBN 0-8065-2728-5[7]
- 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
References
- ^ Rudius Media - "Main Page"
- ^ TuckerMax.com: Personal Info
- ^ Tucker Max Blog: The MTV Story
- ^ Tucker Max Blog: The Almost Banned Miss Vermont Story
- ^ New York Times - Internet Battle Raises Questions About Privacy and the First Amendment
- ^ TuckerMax.com: ACLU amicus curiae
- ^ a b I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
- ^ "Dude, Here's My Book", by Warren St. John, New York Times, April 16, 2006. Reprinted as "Manly reading for literate dudes", International Herald Tribune, April 20, 2006.
- ^ Opie & Anthony Video"
- ^ Tucker Max Blog: Tucker Signs a Deal With Comedy Central
- ^ Variety.com
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