Max Apple (born October 22, 1941) is an American short story writer, novelist, and professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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.Profile on Notable Names Database (NNDB) 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."An Interview with Writer Max Apple," The Daily Pennsylvanian, Spring 2002 (accessed 4-27-12) 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
The Oranging of America and Other Stories (1976) Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right (1978) Free Agents (1984) The Propheteers (1987) Roommates: My Grandfather's Story (1994) I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story (1998) The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) Here at the Internet Archive.
See also History of the Jews in Houston
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References
External links An Interview with Writer Max Apple