​Apollo Papafrangou  is the author of "concrete candy", "the fence", and "Wings of Wax"

published  by  Booktrope.

He is born in Oakland California son of a Greek immigrant, and Gre​ek-American mother.

He has been writing from the age  of twelve, and at the age fourteen,  he  published his first story "four wolfs and one panther" at Zyz​zyva literary magazine in San Franscisco​ California,  after the discovery of his talent by Jess Mowry,  the author of " way past cool" and  "six out seven" (Farrar Straus & Giroux).​

Apollo published his frst book "concrete candy" (Doubleday/Anchor books)  at the age of fifteen. 

"The Fence" orginally written when the author was only fourteen, the manuscript was optioned for a feature-lenth film by H.B.O. a division of time warner enter tainment on December 2000.

Apollo lives in Oakland whom he continues to write his stories.