Max Apple
Born	October 22, 1941 (1941-10-22) (age 68) Grand Rapids, MI, US
Occupation	Short story writer, novelist, essayist, professor
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Genres	Fiction, non-fiction

Max Apple (born October 22, 1941) is an American short story writer, novelist, and university professor at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Apple, who was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, received his B.A. (1963) and Ph.D (1970) from The University of Michigan. After teaching creative writing at Rice University in Houston, Texas for 29 years he retired briefly, only to resume teaching at The University of Pennsylvania. Along with his published novels and short story collections he has done work as a screenwriter including 1994's The Air Up There starring Kevin Bacon and Roommates (film) (based on his 1994 biography Roommates: My Grandfather's Story).

[edit] Bibliography

• The Oranging of America (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 (2007)

[edit] References

• [www.nndb.com/people/791/000048647/]
• [1]

[edit] External links

• Links to three of Max Apple's stories published in Harper's Magazine

Persondata
NAME	Apple, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Short story writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH