Sam Apple , a graduate of the University of Michigan, is a non-fiction book writer and the editor-in-chief and publisher of The Faster Times. 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 was editor of New Voices magazine and Director of interactive media at Nerve.com. He was a finalist for the PEN America Award for a first work of non-fiction. Apple has written for numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Financial Times, ESPN The Magazine, and Slate.com.
He is the son of novelist Max Apple and is married to Jennifer Fried, a lawyer.