Interview With Ethicist and Author Dr. Jacob Appel
Appel was born in the Bronx to Gerald B. Appel and Alice Appel and raised in Scarsdale, New York,[6] and Branford, Connecticut.[7] His family is Jewish.[8] He completed his Bachelor of Arts at Brown University with double majors in American literature and in history (1995).[9] He has seven master's degrees from:
- Brown University (Bachelor of Arts) English and History (Master of Arts in European history, 1996),[10]
- Columbia University (Master of Arts in American history, 1998, and Master of Philosophy, 2000),[11]
- New York University (Master of Fine Arts in creative writing with a focus in fiction, 2000),[12][13][14][15]
- Albany Medical College, constituent of the Union University of New York (Master of Science in bioethics, 2012), and then completed his
- MFA in playwriting from Queens College of the City University of New York (2013)[16] and
- Master of Public Health from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (2014)[17][18]
He holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School (2003)[19][20][21] and a Doctor of Medicine from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (2009).[22] He completed his residency and fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and is a practicing psychiatrist there.[23][24] He is also licensed to practice law in New York and Rhode Island.[25]
Appel is a "prolific"[26] short story writer.
His fiction has been published in [1] literary journals, including Agni,[27] The Alaska Quarterly Review,[28] The Gettysburg Review,[29] The Missouri Review,[30] Shenandoah, StorySouth[31] and Virginia Quarterly Review.[32]
His first story collection, Scouting for the Reaper, won Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize in 2012.[33] Among the other awards he has won for his short stories are those sponsored by the Boston Review (1998)[34] and New Millennium Writings (2004, 2007, 2008).[35][36][37]
He won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for best short story in 2004[38] and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation grant in 2005.[39] His fiction has been short-listed for the O. Henry Prize (2001),[40] Best American Short Stories (2007,[41] 2008,[42] 2013), Best American Nonrequired Reading (2006,[43] 2007[44]), Best American Mystery Stories (2009)[45] and the Pushcart Prize (2006,[46] 2007,[47] 2011,[48] 2014,[49] 2019[50]).
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.[51][52] 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.[53] His book subsequently won The International Rubery Book Award in 2013.
His plays have been performed by companies across the U.S., including the Detroit Repertory Theatre, Heller Theatre, and Epilogue Players.[54][55]
Appel has taught creative writing at the Gotham Writers' Workshop and New York University.[56] He served as writer-in-residence at Yeshiva College in 2013.[57]
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