Max Apple
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| Born | October 22, 1941 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
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| 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
[edit | edit source]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).[citation needed] Max's son is the non-fiction writer Sam Apple.
Bibliography
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- The Oranging of America and Other Stories (1976)
- Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right (1978)
- Free Agents (1984) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Propheteers (1987) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Roommates: My Grandfather's Story (1994) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story (1998) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[n 1][5]
See also
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Here at the Internet Archive.
References
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- ^ Profile on Notable Names Database (NNDB)
- ^ "An Interview with Writer Max Apple," The Daily Pennsylvanian, Spring 2002 (accessed 4-27-12)
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External links
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