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His non-fiction works include The History of Mystery and Men's Adventure Magazines, which won Anthony Award. He has written tie-in books for several movies including Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster, which won the Best Novel Scribe Award in 2008 from the International Association of Tie-in Writers. Tree, Batman and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, based on the hit TV series for which he has also written ten novels. His comics credits include the syndicated strip Dick Tracy (1977-1993), Ms. Their Antiques Flee Market won the Romantic Times Best Humorous Mystery Novel award in 2009.

He has collaborated with his wife Barbara Collins on three novels and numerous short stories. He is completing a number of Mike Hammer novels begun by the late Mickey Spillane. He won the Shamus awards for True Detective in 1983 and Stolen Away in 1991. His other works include Road to Purgatory, Road to Paradise, Return to Perdition, Bye Bye, Baby, and Target Lancer. His graphic novel Road to Perdition, published in 1998, is the basis of the Academy Award-winning 2002 film starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Daniel Craig. (Publisher Provided) Max Allen Collins was born in Muscatine, Iowa on March 3, 1948.

Author of other such move tie-in bestsellers as "In the Line of Fire" and "Air Force One", he is also the screenwriter/director of the cult favorite suspense films "Mommie" and "Mommie's Day". Collins has been contracted by DC Comics to write three tie-ins to his critically acclaimed graphic novel "The Road to Perdition", which was adapted into the feature film. Collins created his first independent feature film, Mommy, following a nightmarish experience as screenwriter on the cable movie The Expert. He has contributed to a number of other comics, including Batman.

Collins also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip begining in 1977 and ending in the early 1990s. He is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writer's of America's Shamus Award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers "True Detective" and "Stolen Away". Max Allen Collins was born in 1948 in Muscatine, Iowa.