Adam Rapp (born in Chicago, Illinois) is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. He is currently the playwright-in-residence at Edge Theatre Company.
The son of Mary Lee and Douglas Rapp, he was raised in Joliet, Illinois, with his brother, actor Anthony Rapp, and sister, Anne. His parents divorced when Rapp was five, and he and his siblings were raised by their mother, who died in 1997. He graduated from Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, where he played varsity basketball, and completed a two-year playwriting fellowship at Juilliard.
Rapp is the author of several young adult novels, including Missing the Piano, The Buffalo Tree, The Copper Elephant, Little Chicago, 33 Snowfish, and Under the Wolf, Under the Dog. His first adult novel, The Year of Endless Sorrows, was released in December 2006. He has also written two graphic novels, Ball-peen Hammer and Decelerate Blue, which will be published by First Second Books.
Rapp's novel The Buffalo Tree was censored by the Muhlenberg School Board in Reading, Pennsylvania due to its themes, graphic language and sexual content. [1]
Rapp was a member of the band Bottomside, which released the independent CD The Element Man in September 2004. He is currently a member of Less the Band, which released Bear in April 2006.
