Max Apple

Max Apple (born October 22, 1941) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]

Max Apple
Apple in 2012
Born (1941-10-22) October 22, 1941
Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationShort story writer, novelist, essayist, professor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
GenreFiction, non-fiction

Biography

Apple was born to a Jewish family[2] in Grand Rapids, Michigan and received his B.A. (1963) and Ph.D (1970) from The University of Michigan.[3] Apple taught creative writing at Rice University in Houston, Texas for 29 years, where he held the Fox Chair in English. After retiring from Rice University, Apple moved to Philadelphia, where he teaches at The University of Pennsylvania.[4] Along with his published novels and short story collections, he wrote the screenplays for Smokey Bites the Dust, The Air Up There, and Roommates (based on his 1994 biography Roommates: My Grandfather's Story).[5]

Bibliography
Some books by Max Apple
  • The Oranging of America and Other Stories (1976)
  • Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right (1978)
  • Free Agents (1984) ISBN 9780060152826
  • The Propheteers (1987) ISBN 9780571148783
  • Roommates: My Grandfather's Story (1994) ISBN 9780446602006
  • I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story (1998) ISBN 9780446520744
  • The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-8018-8738-3[n 1]

See also

Notes
  1. Here at the Internet Archive.

References
  1. "Max Appel". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  2. Taub, Michael; Shatzky, Joel (1997). Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Greenwood. pp. 8–12. ISBN 978-0313294624. Apple.
  3. Profile on Notable Names Database (NNDB)
  4. "An Interview with Writer Max Apple," The Daily Pennsylvanian, Spring 2002 (accessed 4-27-12)
  5. Profile on Internet Movie Database
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