Max Meltzer
Editor
Max joined Gallery Books in 2017, after completing an MFA in fiction writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an internship at Aevitas Creative Management. He is acquiring narrative, reported, and ideas-based nonfiction. He is drawn to commercial books with gravitas, heart, humor, (or all three) across a range of genres and topics, including memoir, film and television, humor, popular science, sports, politics, travel, adventure, and nature.
Max is the editor of the recent New York Times bestsellers The Longest Race by Kara Goucher and Bibi by Benjamin Netanyahu. Forthcoming titles include Everest, Inc. by Will Cockrell, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions by Ed Zwick, The Sky Was Falling by Dr. Cornelia Griggs, and It’s Only Drowning by David Litt. While working with Aimée Bell, he helped edit the New York Times bestsellers Straight Shooter by Stephen A. Smith, My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams, Vegan, At Times by Jessica Seinfeld, and Beautiful Things by Hunter Biden, as well as You Can’t Be Serious by Kal Penn, Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli by Mark Seal, A Billion Years by Mike Rinder, The Islander by Chris Blackwell, and Camera Girl by Carl Sferrazza Anthony.
