Philip Appleman

Philip D. Appleman (8 February 1926 – 11 April 2020) was an American poet and writer. He was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.

He published seven volumes of poetry, the first of which was Summer Love and Surf and the latest of which is Perfidious Proverbs (Humanity Books, 2011); three novels, including Apes and Angels (Putnam, 1989); and half a dozen nonfiction books, including the widely used Norton Critical Edition, Darwin and the Norton Critical Edition of Malthus' Essay on Population. His poetry and fiction have won many awards, including a fellowship in poetry from the

He has given readings of his poetry at the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Museum, the Huntington Library, and many universities. He read several of his poems on the July 6, 2012, episode of Moyers & Company.

He was a founding member of the Poets Advisory Committee of

Appleman wrote many poems drawing on the work of Charles Darwin. In 2003 he signed the Humanist Manifesto.^[1]

Appleman died in April 2020 at the age of 94.^[2]

References

• Biographical notes from Who's Who in America, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 18

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