Philip D. Appleman

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington

Philip Appleman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English at Indiana University, has published seven volumes of poetry, the latest of which is New and Selected Poems, 1956-1996 (University of Arkansas Press, 1996); three novels, including Apes and Angels (Putnam, 1989); and half a dozen nonfiction books, including the widely used Norton Critical Edition, Darwin.

His poetry and fiction have won many awards, including a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Friend of Darwin Award from the National Center for Science Education, and the Humanist Arts Award of the American Humanist Association, and have appeared in scores of publications, including Harper's Magazine, The Nation, New Republic, New York Times, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, and Yale Review.

He has given readings of his poetry at the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Museum, the Huntington Library, and many universities, and is a member of the Poetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, PEN American Center, and the Authors Guild of America. He is listed in Who's Who in America and in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 18.

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