Peter Applebome Bio, Age, Net Worth, Awards, Books, Family, Education, Career

Peter Applebome Biography

Peter Applebome is an American editor and writer who has worked for The New York Times. He was a Senior Editor at Texas Monthly magazine and worked for newspapers in Corpus Christi and Dallas.

Peter Applebome Age

Peter was born on 3 July 1949, in New York, New York, United States of America. He is 74 years old as of July 2023.

Peter Applebome Family-Education

Applebome was born in Manhattan and raised in Great Neck, New York. In 1971, he graduated from Duke University, and in 1974, he graduated from Northwestern University’s Journalism School.

Peter Applebome
Peter Applebome

Peter Applebome Career

He was a Senior Editor at Texas Monthly magazine and worked for newspapers in Corpus Christi and Dallas. In 1987, he joined the New York Times as a national correspondent and later as bureau chief in Houston. In 1989, he relocated to Atlanta as the Southern Bureau head, a position he held for five years. Since then, he has covered education and culture, served as Deputy Metropolitan Editor, and for six years published the Our Towns column, which included news, features, tales, and analysis of life in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut suburbs, exurbs, and outlying towns. He has taught journalism classes at Princeton University, Duke University, and Vanderbilt University.

The essay “Civil War Vapors Remain” by Applebome appears in The Grand Review: The Civil War Continues to Shape America, published in 2000 by York, PA-based Bold Print, Inc. The book includes a history of the Grand Review of the Armies held on May 23-24, 1865 to commemorate the conclusion of the American Civil War by Georg R. Sheets, as well as commentary by Applebome, Governor L. Douglas Wilder, and Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson, and first-look photographs.

Peter Applebome Awards

He has received numerous accolades, the most odd of which was the 1985 Imitation Hemingway Award, which was held in Dallas’ singles bars. Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture (Times novels, 1996) and Scout’s Honor: A Father’s Unlikely Foray into the Woods (Harcourt, 2003) are two of his novels.

Peter Applebome Net Worth

Peter has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.