R.W. Apple Jr. was born on 20 November 1934 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was married to Betsey Pinckney Brown and Edith Smith. He died on 4 October 2006 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Long-time New York Times food and travel writer who also covered
Richard Nixon and the Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars. Won an Emmy Award in
1963 as a correspondent for The Huntley-Brinkley Report (1956).