Apple AnApple An is an award-winning author, professor, and cultural memoirist whose writing bridges the lived and the remembered. With a career spanning over three decades at Syracuse University, she has published more than 200 scholarly articles and three cademic books, earning 16,500+ citations and 24 honors for her contributions to research, teaching, and service. Her work as a founding editor-in-chief and historian for major academic associations reflects a lifelong commitment to intellectual rigor.But it is in creative storytelling that Apple found her deeper calling. Since 2017, she has written, under her pen name, Apple An, memoirs, short stories, and historical novels that illuminate untold perspectives of Chinese people.Apple is the mother and guardian of five children who became successful adults. She lives in Baldwinsville, New York. A lifelong learner and creative soul, she enjoys tennis, ballroom dancing, gardening, travel, and the arts. Her mission is to preserve cultural memory, foster human connection, and tell stories that linger long after the last page. Read More Read Less