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Bio: The New Crime Fiction Author Max Stravagar is a political activist, aspiring International speaker based in Queens, NYC, grew up partly in the Bronx, he is queried more than 18 million searches for his online eBooks. A number of titles over the years have gone under a change including the author’s name. He has also giving his fans and friends an acronym and a nick name The “Stravoz”
Mr. Stravagar is a super memory hero, weaving some of his adventures and life experiences into his books, and has never had writers block. He is an animal person and enjoys watching boxing and shopping, at the same time. During his down time, he loves eating yogurt while doing yoga. lol
He watches sports, drink beer, and cries when his team badly looses and then at night when the pain hurts, he sleeps in a balled shape and in the morning he stands by his bowl waiting to be fed lol

On a more serious note as a child he fell in love with the written word, so much, that his local library kicked him out for using too much typing paper and told never to come back again this led to code writing and helped form a healthy mistrust of society’s institutions.

Early life: Living under such terrible poverty at age eight ½ he began begging for money on the streets of New York City, quickly he become street smart and began shoplifting.

When he was a young teenager, he joined a few Black and Latino gangs, and helped to drug traffic for the Mafia and neighborhood wiseguys. At age eighteen more than eighteen people whom he knew and friends killed by gun violence over the course of four years.

At age eleven or twelve his brother and he along with mutual friends of theirs survived a lynching, seconds away from death the local mafia heavy weights intervened and mistook him for Italian, and he played every bit of the part to save their lives…it was his introduction to"The life."

His background is Latino, Black and White, Jewish and other.

Authors Quote: When you buy my ebooks, you will forever be curse with good luck be careful what you read.

His latest blog post THE PUBLISHER AND MARKET IS WRONG!

Recipient of the Hampton Book awards for discovery 2018

Watch out for his 2021 biography coming soon!

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New Crime Author Helps Prevent Racial Violence

Extinguishing the Flames of Hate

Max Stravagar, Author of the Hampton Book Awards Discovery novel Hope River is helping to prevent racial violence by supporting young change makers and millennials at risk with the tools and knowledge to create awareness, dialogue, and connections. 20% of his book profits from 2020 through 2021 are being donated to charity, a nonprofit organization Erase the Hate

For students who are passionate and dedicated to removing hate from our society, Max Stravagar has committed to funding a full scholarship at the New York University if Hope River sells more than 100,000 copies.

Over seventeen million readers have read his books and growing every day. After many years of hard work a paid version is now available. He has also pledged on the front page of his book to donate a part of his profits to charity In addition post a list of preventive and hate solution links.

With today’s rash in shootings and racial violence the reported rate has become common place in the news, his goal is to help extinguish the flames of hate where a new generation of Millennials can save lives.

Max Stravagar became interested in crimes against humanity early in life, as well as racial violence prevention.

As a child he survived a lynching along with a brother of his and mutual black and Latino friends, racial tensions in NYC was at an all time high. It was a summer afternoon hot and thirsty; they entered a recreational park to drink some water; instead, they were relentlessly chased after.

From behind back alleys and roof tops, bullets whizzed past their direction, and eventually were trapped inside a restaurant, a crowd began to form, and ropes made into nooses hanged down from apartment windows.

A few unlikely good Samaritans stepped forward saving their lives.

When they made it out of that terrible situation, parents and protesters and local organizers led a sit down protest, the park was quickly integrated soon after.

As a teenager, he joined a few black and Latino gangs, and helped to drug traffic for the mafia and wiseguys in his neighborhood, later they would allow his friends of different nationalities to form a crew of their own, that would promote good will, which racial tensions and riots had become bad for business.

After surviving the mean cold streets with a degree in guns and bullets and multiple near death calls or misses, and the injustice he endured, His book Hope River is a fictional story dealing with some of these topics and issues.

Set in the 1700’s where slavery and racism in America is a part of everyday normal life, a slave name Doug Winston finds freedom by faking his death in a remarkable attempt; this decision would alter the path of his destiny for better or worse.
You can find Hope River on Amazon today. Read more

Max Stravagar is quoted as a source numerous times under different pen names, throughout his career by The Daily News, NY Post, The Times, and the Washington Post.

Email: merchantline@juno.com, phone 347-490-9498, Address 4492 pelham park way, Bronx N.Y.C
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