Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Content Warning: This section includes discussions of anti-Black racism, drug dependency, murder, sexual assault, and violent hazing rituals.

Max Marshall is the author of Among the Bros. He was born in 1993 and attended Columbia University in New York City, where he joined Delta Sigma Phi. Delta Sigma Phi was the first fraternity to have been founded on principles of religious and ethnic acceptance and diversity. He worked as a journalist in Vietnam following his graduation from university and then as a feature and cover writer for Texas Monthly. His investigation of the College of Charleston drug ring revealed a massive operation responsible for the distribution of millions of pills, far beyond what police originally reported.

Throughout Among the Bros, Marshall weaves in his own personal experiences with fraternity life and Xanax dependency to provide deeper insight into the lives of the frat “bros” involved in the drug ring. Marshall highlights the reality of Privilege and Institutionalized Racism at the core of much of fraternity life. While Delta Sigma Phi is more progressive, at least on a surface level, many southern fraternities like KA and SAE are rooted in white supremacy and have ties to the KKK. 

Marshall also has personal experience with The Impacts of Benzodiazepine Misuse, having taken Xanax himself in college.