Max Apple

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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).Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Max's son is the non-fiction writer Sam Apple.

Bibliography

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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) Template:ISBN
  • The Propheteers (1987) Template:ISBN
  • Roommates: My Grandfather's Story (1994) Template:ISBN
  • I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story (1998) Template:ISBN
  • The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) Template:ISBN[n 1][5]

See also

Notes

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References

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  3. Profile on Notable Names Database (NNDB)
  4. "An Interview with Writer Max Apple," The Daily Pennsylvanian, Spring 2002 (accessed 4-27-12)
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