http://www.last.fm - Brooks who majored in history at Pitzer College started his career in comedy as a writer for Saturday Night Live but soon realized his passion for more serious writing and the living dead.Around the time of Y2K when survival guides were flying off the shelf Brooks noticed an absence of zombie how to manuals. Thats when he set out to answer his own questions about a potential undead epidemic with a detailed well researched zombie survival guide.His novel World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War was a follow up to his Zombie Survival Guide and offers a picture of how the world would react.