Max Apple - Reference.org

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

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 978-0-8018-8738-3⁵ ⁶

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Profile on Notable Names Database (NNDB) http://www.nndb.com/people/791/000048647/ ↩
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