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Max Apple
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Apple was born to a <a href="/facts/American_Jews/zXED0Gus">Jewish</a> family<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> in <a href="/facts/Grand_Rapids%2c_Michigan/R5xJsxsd">Grand Rapids, Michigan</a>, and received his B.A. (1963) and Ph.D (1970) from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Michigan/6e1Ea5xh">University of Michigan</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Apple taught creative writing at <a href="/facts/Rice_University/YvEYoWMn">Rice University</a> in <a href="/facts/Houston/1v8AwQUN">Houston</a>, <a href="/facts/Texas/B987WHF0">Texas</a>, for 29 years, where he held the Fox Chair in English. After retiring from Rice University, Apple moved to Philadelphia, where he teaches at <a href="/facts/The_University_of_Pennsylvania/LBBBULox">The University of Pennsylvania</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Along with his published novels and short story collections, he wrote the screenplays for <i><a href="/facts/Smokey_Bites_the_Dust/WfAx53XK">Smokey Bites the Dust</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Air_Up_There/Pos6vbI4">The Air Up There</a></i>, and <i><a href="/facts/Roommates_(1995_film)/4uLsyUKC">Roommates</a></i> (based on his 1994 biography <i>Roommates: My Grandfather's Story</i>). Max's son is the non-fiction writer <a href="/facts/Sam_Apple/UVFVGq3L">Sam Apple</a>. </p> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul><li><i>The Oranging of America and Other Stories</i> (1976)</li> <li><i>Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right</i> (1978)</li> <li><i>Free Agents</i> (1984) <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780060152826</li> <li><i>The Propheteers</i> (1987) <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780571148783</li> <li><i>Roommates: My Grandfather's Story</i> (1994) <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780446602006</li> <li><i>I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story</i> (1998) <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780446520744</li> <li><i>The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories</i> (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-8018-8738-3<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/History_of_the_Jews_in_Houston/IsM3lefx">History of the Jews in Houston</a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/maxapple.php/">An Interview with Writer Max Apple</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Max Appel". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2020-07-24. <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/max-apple" target="_blank">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/max-apple</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Taub, Michael; Shatzky, Joel (1997). Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Greenwood. pp. 8–12. ISBN 978-0313294624. Apple. <a href="978-0313294624" target="_blank">978-0313294624</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Profile on Notable Names Database (NNDB) <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/791/000048647/" target="_blank">http://www.nndb.com/people/791/000048647/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"An Interview with Writer Max Apple," The Daily Pennsylvanian, Spring 2002 (accessed 4-27-12) <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/maxapple.php" target="_blank">http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/maxapple.php</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Here at the Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/jewofhomedepotan00appl" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/jewofhomedepotan00appl</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Zeidner, Lisa (December 31, 2007). "Juicy Bites of Apple". The Washington Post. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/style/2007/12/31/juicy-bites-of-apple/51f87420-c6e1-4afc-a8a3-82d31d265120/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/style/2007/12/31/juicy-bites-of-apple/51f87420-c6e1-4afc-a8a3-82d31d265120/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>