Max Apple
Max Apple | |
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 Apple in 2012 | |
| Born | October 22, 1941 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Short story writer, novelist, essayist, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction |
Max Apple (born October 22, 1941) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1]
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
- 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
- ^ Here at the Internet Archive.
References
- ^ "Max Appel". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
- ^ Taub, Michael; Shatzky, Joel (1997). Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Greenwood. pp. 8–12. ISBN 978-0313294624.
Apple.
- ^ Profile on Notable Names Database (NNDB)
- ^ "An Interview with Writer Max Apple," The Daily Pennsylvanian, Spring 2002 (accessed 4-27-12)
- ^ Profile on Internet Movie Database
External links
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- 20th-century American novelists
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- American male screenwriters
- Jewish writers
- Rice University faculty
- University of Michigan alumni
- University of Pennsylvania faculty
- Living people
- Pew Fellows in the Arts
- American male novelists
- American male short story writers
- Writers from Grand Rapids, Michigan
- 20th-century American short story writers
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