Jerry Apps
A Celebrated Rural Storyteller
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
Featured Documentaries
Related Wisconsin Public Television documentaries featuring Jerry Apps:
- A Farm Story with Jerry Apps
- A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps
- The Land with Jerry Apps (Fall 2015)