Max Wylie was born on May 12, 1904 in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for The Flying Nun (1967), Wide Wide World (1955) and Omnibus (1952). He was married to Isabel Winans Lamb. He died on September 22, 1975 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA.
His older daughter Janice was one of the two girls murdered in an apartment on New York's Upper East Side on August 28, 1963 in what became known as 'The Career Girls Murder'.