Max Apple
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Born | Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. | October 22, 1941
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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
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]
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) 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][5]
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.
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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)
- ^ Zeidner, Lisa (December 31, 2007). "Juicy Bites of Apple". The Washington Post.
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