Skip to content

General Information

Bio

Jacob M. Appel’s first novel, The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, won the 2012 Dundee International Book Award and was published by Cargo. His short story collection, Scouting for the Reaper, won the 2012 Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2014. His most recent books include a novel, The Biology of Luck (Elephant Rock, 2013), an essay collection, Phoning Home (University of South Carolina Press, 2014) and a short story collection, Einstein’s Beach House (Pressgang/Butler University, 2014). Jacob’s short fiction has appeared in more than two hundred literary journals including Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly, Southwest Review, Threepenny Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. His prose has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, the North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize, the Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize, the Briar Cliff Review’s Short Fiction Prize, the Salem College Center for Women Writers’ Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, the H. E. Francis Prize, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award on four occasions, an Elizabeth George Fellowship and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Grant. His stories have been short-listed for the O. Henry Award (2001), Best American Short Stories (2007, 2008, 2013), Best American Nonrequired Reading (2007, 2008), and the Pushcart Prize anthology (2005, 2006, 2011, 2014). In 2003, he was honored with Brown’s Undergraduate Council of Students Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003. He is currently on the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Full Name

Jacob M. Appel

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

BIRTH

Jacob M. Appel was born in the Bronx, New York.

2012

LITWORK

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
Cargo
978-1908885111
Novel.

2013

LITWORK

The Biology of Luck
Elephant Rock Books
978-0975374689
Novel.

2014

LITWORK

Einstein's Beach House
Pressgang / Butler University

978-0984940585
Short story collection.

2014

LITWORK

Scouting for the Reaper
Black Lawrence
978-1937854959
Short story collection.

2014

LITWORK

Phoning Home
University of South Carolina Press
978-1611173710
Essays.

2015

RESIDENCE

Jacob M. Appel currently lives in New York, New York.

Found Wrong Information?

Contact us or use our form to request an update to your information or request an update on behalf of the author.