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Max Apple

Max Apple is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Max Apple
Apple in 2012
Apple in 2012
Born (1941-10-22) October 22, 1941
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NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
GenreFiction, 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 family2 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). Max's son is the non-fiction writer Sam Apple.

Bibliography

Bibliography

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See also

See also

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Notes

References

References

  1. "Max Appel". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  2. Taub, Michael; Shatzky, Joel (1997). Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Greenwood. pp. 8–12. ISBN 978-0313294624. Apple.
  3. Profile on Notable Names Database (NNDB)
  4. "An Interview with Writer Max Apple," The Daily Pennsylvanian, Spring 2002 (accessed 4-27-12)
  5. Zeidner, Lisa (December 31, 2007). "Juicy Bites of Apple". The Washington Post.
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