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Jerold W. "Jerry" Apps is an American educator and author of more than 40 books.

Early life and education
Apps was born in 1934 and raised on a farm in central Wisconsin near Wild Rose. Apps completed his Ph.D. in education and rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin in 1967.

Career
Since 1994, Apps has been a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Apps has also recorded documentaries and specials with Wisconsin Public Television and PBS.

Personal life
Jerry and his wife Ruth split their time between Madison and their farm, Roshara, in Waushara County.

Awards
2007 Major Achievement Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers 2014 Regional Emmy Award for A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps