Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, Recipient of the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America,
twenty-two time Shamus Award nominee, and multiple Shamus, Scribe,
and Anthony Award winner.;
MAX ALLAN COLLINS has earned an unprecedented twenty-two Private
Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning for his Nathan
Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991), and
the Mike Hammer short story, “So Long, Chief” (2013). In 2017, he
was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, in 2007
he received the PWA life achievement award, the Eye, and in 2012
his Nathan Heller saga was honored with the PWA “Hammer” award for
its major contribution to the private eye genre.;
His graphic novel Road to Perdition (1998) was the basis of the
Academy Award-winning Tom Hanks film and was followed by two
acclaimed prose sequels and several graphic novels, all of which
are being republished by Brash Books. He has created a number of
innovative suspense series, including Mallory, Quarry, Eliot Ness,
Jack and Maggie Starr, Reeder and Rogers, and the “Disaster”
novels. He is completing a number of “Mike Hammer” novels begun by
the late Mickey Spillane, most recently Murder Never Knocks; his
full-cast Hammer audio novel, The Little Death with Stacy Keach,
won a 2011 Audie.;
His many comics credits include the syndicated strip “Dick Tracy”;
his own “Ms. Tree”; “Batman”; and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,
for which he wrote ten best-selling novels and several
award-winning video games. His tie-in books have appeared on the
USA TODAY bestseller list nine times and the New York Times three.
His movie novels include Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and
American Gangster (IAMTW Best Novel “Scribe” Award, 2008).;
An independent filmmaker in the Midwest, Collins has written and
directed four features, including the Lifetime movie “Mommy”
(1996); and he scripted “The Expert,” a 1995 HBO World Premiere,
and the film-festival favorite, “The Last Lullaby” (2009), based on
his novel, The Last Quarry. His documentary “Caveman: V.T. Hamlin &
Alley Oop” (2008) has appeared on PBS and on DVD, and his
documentary “Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane” (1998/2011) appears on
the Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray of “Kiss Me Deadly.”;
His play “Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life,” was nominated for an
Edgar Award in 2004 by the Mystery Writers of America; a film
version, written and directed by Collins, was released on DVD and
appeared on PBS stations in 2009.;
His other credits include film criticism, short fiction,
songwriting, trading-card sets, and video games. His coffee-table
book, The History of Mystery, was nominated for every major mystery
award, and his Men’s Adventure Magazines won the Anthony
Award.;
Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara
Collins; as “Barbara Allan,” they have collaborated on eleven
novels, including the successful “Trash `n’ Treasures” mysteries,
Antiques Flee Market (2008) winning the Romantic Times Best
Humorous Mystery Novel award in 2009. Their son Nathan is a
Japanese-to-English translator, working on video games, manga and
novels.
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