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A Memoir of a Writing Life

Jerry Apps

One of the Midwest’s best-known and most revered storytellers shares his journey to becoming a writer.

224 pages, 5.5 x 8.25, 37 b&w photos
Paperback: $24.95 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-997-0
Ebook: $15.99 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-998-7
Publication Date: 11/18/2022

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Description

In this combination memoir and craft book, award-winning author Jerry Apps shares the next phase in his life story begun in Limping through Life and Once a Professor. Beginning with a boyhood surrounded by storytellers, Apps takes readers along on his path to becoming one of the Midwest’s best-known and most revered writers. In characteristic no-nonsense style, he shares the joys, disappointments, and frustrations of the writing life and describes the genesis and creation of many of his best-known books.

In recounting his long and prolific writing career, Apps provides an insider’s view into the creative process, delving into sources for ideas, research strategies, and his guidelines and essential tools for writing. Along the way he recalls his relationships with publishers, editors, TV producers, librarians, booksellers, and others and shares a scrapbook’s worth of stories—some funny, some heartwarming, a few of them harrowing.

A book for book lovers!

Author Bio

Celebrated storyteller and rural historian Jerry Apps was born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm. He was a former county extension agent and professor at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Apps authored more than fifty fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, including Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Farm Family Values, The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters, When the White Pine Was King, and Barns of Wisconsin, all published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.