Herbs and Apples is a 1925 novel by Helen Hooven Santmyer. Her first novel, it was largely autobiographical. Set in the fictional town of Tecumseh, Ohio, an unnamed Boston-area women's college, and Manhattan, it tells the story of Derrick Thornton, aspiring writer and poet, who ends up preferring the "herbs and apples" of Tecumseh to any sort of literary life.