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Max Apple

American writer

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

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Bibliography
  • 3 See also
  • 4 Notes
  • 5 References
  • 6 External links

Biography

Apple was born to a Jewish family in Grand Rapids, Michigan and received his B.A. (1963) and Ph.D (1970) from The University of Michigan. 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. 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).

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

See also

  • History of the Jews in Houston

Notes

    References

      External links

      • An Interview with Writer Max Apple