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Sam Apple

 

Sam Apple is the author of Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection, American Parent, and Schlepping Through the Alps. Apple has published short stories, personal essays, satires, children's books, and journalistic features on a wide range of topics. In recent years, he has primarily written about science and health. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, The MIT Technology Review, and McSweeney’s, among many other publications. Schlepping Through the Alps was a finalist for the PEN America Award for a first work of nonfiction. 

Publications

Courses Taught

fall 2024

ENGL 3402.301 Guinea-Pig Journalism  

fall 2023

fall 2022

fall 2021

fall 2020

spring 2020

ENGL 157.301 Immersion Journalism  

fall 2019

spring 2019

ENGL 157.301 Guinea Pig Journalism  

fall 2018

spring 2018

fall 2017

spring 2017

fall 2016

spring 2016

fall 2015

ENGL 157.303 Entrepreneurial Journalism  

spring 2015

fall 2014

ENGL 157.302 Entrepreneurial Journalism  

spring 2014

ENGL 010.301 Creative Writing  

fall 2013

ENGL 157.302 Entrepreneurial Journalism  

spring 2013

ENGL 010.301 Creative Writing  

fall 2012

ENGL 157.302 Entrepreneurial Journalism  

spring 2012

spring 2011

fall 2007

ENGL 112.302 Fiction Writing Workshop