MAX ALEXANDER

Max Alexander has worked as a senior editor at People in New York and was executive editor of Variety and Daily Variety in Los Angeles, where he managed a staff of reporters around the world and supervised on-site custom publishing operations at the Cannes Film Festival. He writes about personal finance, crime, healthcare and other topics for leading publications that include Readers Digest, Smithsonian, Money, Prevention, This Old House and The New York Times. Max also has written or co-written five books, and has edited books by writers such as George Plimpton and film critic David Thomson.