He lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughters and worked as a marketer for Hewlett-Packard before he became a novelist.

He also has his own website, maxbarry.com In early 2004 Barry converted his web site to a blog and began regularly posting to it.

[5] Barry wrote the screenplay for Syrup, which was released in theatres on 7 June 2013.

Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to Company, which will be adapted by Steve Pink.

Jennifer Government was optioned by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's now defunct Section Eight Productions.