Sam Apple is a non-fiction writer.
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| Occupation | professor, non-fiction writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Columbia University |
| Genre | children's, non-fiction |
Life
editSam Apple received an undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan. After Michigan, he studied writing at Columbia University in the Master of Fine Arts program.
Apple is the author of Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection. Liveright editor Robert Weil solicited the book after reading one of Apple's articles in The New York Times Magazine. Apple has also written two books for Ballantine Books, Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd and American Parent: My Strange and Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland. Apple is on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing program at Johns Hopkins University. He has also been an adjunct professor of creative writing and entrepreneurial journalism at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a finalist for the PEN America Award for a first work of non-fiction.
Apple was editor of New Voices magazine, director of interactive media at Nerve.com, and publisher of The Faster Times. Apple has written for numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times, The New Yorker,[1] Wired,[2] McSweeney's, The Atlantic,The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic,[3] ESPN The Magazine, and Slate.com.[4] Apple's short stories have appeared in Tablet (magazine).[5]
Family
editHe is the son of novelist Max Apple and is married to Jennifer Fried, a lawyer. They have three children .
Works
edit- Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection. Liveright, 2021.
- Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd. Random House Publishing Group. 16 January 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-49052-0.
- American Parent: My Strange and Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland, Random House Publishing Group, 2009
- The Saddest Toilet in the World, Illustrator Sam Ricks, Simon and Schuster, 2016, ISBN 9781481451239
- The Day the Kids Took Over, Little Brown and Company, 2021.
References
edit- ^ "Sam Apple". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ Apple, Sam. "What makes us fat?". Wired. Wired Magazine.
- ^ "Sam Apple". New Republic. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "Sam Apple". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
- ^ "Sam Apple". Tablet. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
External links
edit- [1] Sam Apple discusses cancer and metabolism on CBS News
- Sam Apple on Parents and Science
- Apple on Schlepping Through the Alps
- Article about Sam Apple and The Faster Times in The New York Observer
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