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Author Jerry Apps

Award-winning Wisconsin author Jerry Apps has written more than 40 nonfiction and fiction books, including 20—and counting—published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm, Jerry is a former county extension agent and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Madison, where he taught for thirty years. Today he works as a rural historian, creative writing instructor, and full-time writer. He has created five documentaries with Wisconsin Public Television, has won several awards for his writing, and won a regional Emmy Award for the TV documentary A Farm Winter. He and his wife, Ruth, divide their time between their home in Madison and their farm, Roshara, in Waushara County.

Jerry Apps Titles

• Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work
• Barns of Wisconsin 
• Casper Jaggi: Master Swiss Cheese Maker
• Eat Rutabagas
• Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Farm Values
• Garden Wisdom: Lessons Learned from 60 Years of Gardening
• Horse-Drawn Days: A Century of Farming with Horses
• Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir
• Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days
• Never Curse the Rain: A Farm Boy’s Reflections on Water
• Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories
• Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times
• One-Room Country Schools: History and Recollections
• Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters
• Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Success
• Roshara Journal: Chronicling Four Seasons, Fifty Years, and 120 Acres
• Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm
• Stormy
• Tents, Tigers, and the Ringling Brothers
• Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist's Memoir
• Wisconsin Agriculture: A History