Max Handelman - Biography

Max Handelman (born May 3, 1973 in Portland, Oregon) is an American author, sportswriter, executive, film producer, and blogger. He wrote the book (with co-author Erik Barmack) Why Fantasy Football Matters: (And Our Lives Do Not).

Education

Handelman grew up in the Portland, Oregon, where he attended Catlin Gabel School, graduating in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, and received an MBA degree from UCLA in 2003.

Career and works

After a career as an investment banker, Handelman became a director at News Corporation, where he helped to launch Fox Sports' fantasy football division. He is an avid fan of fantasy football and other fantasy sports, and penned a work on the subject, Why Fantasy Football Matters: (And Our Lives Do Not), with boyhood friend Erik Barmack. Handelman and Barmack also colloborated on a weblog covering the Portland Trail Blazers entitled Beyond Bowie.

In addition to his sports-related work, Handelman is a partner in a film production company called Brownstone Productions, whose first film, Surrogates, released in 2009.

Personal life

Handelman is married to actress/model Elizabeth Banks, his college girlfriend, whom he wed in 2003. Banks converted to Judaism, Handelman's religion, prior to the wedding. The couple presently live in Los Angeles.

He and his wife welcomed their first child, a boy named Felix via surrogacy in March 2011.

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