Jacob M. Appel
- January 9, 2024
- American Author
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Jacob M. Appel |
| Occupation | American author |
| Date Of Birth | Feb 21, 1973(1973-02-21) |
| Age | 51 |
| Birthplace | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | New York |
| Horoscope | Pisces |
Jacob M. Appel Biography
| Name | Jacob M. Appel |
| Birthday | Feb 21 |
| Birth Year | 1973 |
| Place Of Birth | New York |
| Home Town | New York |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
| Parents | Gerald B. Appel, Alice Appel |
Jacob M. Appel is one of the most popular and richest American author who was born on February 21, 1973 in New York, New York, United States. Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia. Appel’s novel The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Appel is the subject of the 2019 documentary film Jacob by director Jon Stahl.
Appel writes for both The Huffington Post and Opposing Views. He has staked out a libertarian position of many bioethical issues, advocating a worldview that he describes as “a culture of liberty.” He has also authored opinion pieces in The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Albany Times-Union, Tucson Citizen, Detroit Free Press, New Haven Register, Baltimore Sun and The Providence Journal. The Best American Essays series named his nonfiction pieces as “notable essays” in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017, and received “special mention” from the Pushcart Prize in 2012 and 2017.
His first story collection, Scouting for the Reaper, won Black Lawrence Press’s Hudson Prize in 2012. Among the other awards he has won for his short stories are those sponsored by the Boston Review (1998) and New Millennium Writings (2004, 2007, 2008).
Appel has taught creative writing at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop and New York University. He served as Writer-in-Residence at Yeshiva College in 2013.
He won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for best short story in 2004 and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation grant in 2005. His fiction has been short- listed for the O. Henry Prize (2001), Best American Short Stories (2007, 2008, 2013), Best American Nonrequired Reading (2006, 2007), Best American Mystery Stories (2009) and the Pushcart Prize (2006, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2019).
Jacob M. Appel Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | American author |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jacob M. Appel is one of the richest American author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jacob M. Appel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Appel was born in the Bronx to Gerald B. Appel and Alice Appel and raised in Scarsdale, New York, and Branford, Connecticut. His family is Jewish. He completed his BA at Brown University with double majors in English and American literature and in history (1995). He has seven master’s degrees from:
He holds a JD from Harvard Law School (2003) and an MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (2009). He completed his residency and fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and is a practicing psychiatrist there. He is also licensed to practice law in New York and Rhode Island.
His debut novel, The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, won the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize and was published by Cargo in October 2012. It was described as a “A darkly comic satire, full of insight into American culture” by Stephen Fry and “engaging, funny, ingenious, even charming” by Philip Pullman. His book subsequently won The International Rubery Book Award in 2013.
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