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.{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/max-apple| title=Max Appel|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=2020-07-24}}

Biography

Apple was born to a Jewish family{{cite book |last1=Taub|first1=Michael|last2=Shatzky|first2=Joel|title=Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook| url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat|url-access=registration|quote=Apple.| year=1997| publisher=Greenwood|pages=[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/8 8]–12|isbn=978-0313294624}} in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and received his B.A. (1963) and Ph.D (1970) from the University of Michigan.[http://www.nndb.com/people/791/000048647/ 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."[http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/maxapple.php 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).{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} Max's son is the non-fiction writer Sam Apple.

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}}[https://archive.org/details/jewofhomedepotan00appl Here] at the Internet Archive.{{Cite news |last=Zeidner |first=Lisa |date=December 31, 2007 |title=Juicy Bites of Apple |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/style/2007/12/31/juicy-bites-of-apple/51f87420-c6e1-4afc-a8a3-82d31d265120/ |work=The Washington Post}}