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| Occupation | professor, non-fiction writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Columbia University |
| Genre | children's, non-fiction |
Sam Apple is a non-fiction writer.
Sam Apple | |
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| Occupation | professor, non-fiction writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Columbia University |
| Genre | children's, non-fiction |
Sam Apple is a non-fiction writer.
Sam 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]
He is the son of novelist Max Apple and is married to Jennifer Fried, a lawyer. They have three children .
Otto Heinrich Warburg, son of physicist Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan during the First World War, and was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery. He was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931. In total, he was nominated for the award 47 times over the course of his career.
Susan Orlean is an American journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. In 2021, Orlean joined the writing team of HBO comedy series How To with John Wilson.
Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., known professionally as Peter Arno, was an American cartoonist. He contributed cartoons and 101 covers to The New Yorker from 1925, the magazine's first year, until 1968, the year of his death. In 2015, New Yorker contributor Roger Angell described him as "the magazine's first genius".
The Golden Apples of the Sun is an anthology of 22 short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was published by Doubleday & Company in 1953.
Adam Gopnik is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986.
Peter De Vries was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.
Samuel Michael Simon was an American television producer and animal rights activist who co-developed the television series The Simpsons.
Dan Chaon is an American writer. Formerly a creative writing professor, he is the author of three short story collections and four novels.
Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College.
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Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.
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Samuel Jones Wagstaff Jr. was an American art curator, collector, and the artistic mentor and benefactor of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and poet-punk rocker Patti Smith. Wagstaff is known in part for his support of minimalism, pop art, conceptual art and earthworks, but his aesthetic acceptance and support of photography presaged the acceptance of the medium as a fine art.
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The Faster Times was an online newspaper launched by Sam Apple on July 9, 2009. Many print newspapers were going out of business and reporters were losing their jobs. The New York Times reported that in this climate, Apple was able to recruit professional writers guaranteeing them only 75% of revenue from advertisements placed near their stories. In 2010, the paper began a membership program that allows readers to subscribe. Incentives are given to subscribers, but online content continues to be available to the public.
Abigail Pogrebin is an American writer, journalist, podcast host for Tablet magazine, and former Director of Jewish Outreach for the Michael Bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign.
Wil S. Hylton is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and has published cover stories for The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper's, Details, GQ, New York, Outside, and many others.
Robert Daniel Menaker was an American fiction writer and editor. He worked with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and as a consultant for Barnes & Noble Bookstores.
Sub-Lingual Tablet is the 30th and penultimate studio album by English band The Fall, released in May 2015 by Cherry Red Records.
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