Sam Apple

Sam Apple, a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Master of Fine Arts program at Columbia University, is a non-fiction book writer. Apple has 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 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, Wired, McSweeney's, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, ESPN The Magazine, and Slate.com.

He is the son of novelist Max Apple and is married to Jennifer Fried, a lawyer.

External links

• Apple in Wired Magazine
• 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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