Philip D. Appleman is an American poet. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published seven volumes of poetry, the first of which was Summer Love and Surf and the latest of which is Perfidious Proverbs; three novels, including Apes and Angels; 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 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. He read several of his poems on the July 6, 2012, episode of Moyers & Company. 

February 8th, 1926 in Kendallville  /  Died:   Apr 11th, 2020 - aged 94