The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
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Appel, Jacob M.: - Jacob M. Appel is a physician, attorney and bioethicist based in New York City. He is the author of more than two hundred published short stories and is a past winner of 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 H. E. Francis Prize, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award in four different years, an Elizabeth George Fellowship and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Grant. His stories have been short-listed for the O. Henry Award, Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Mystery Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthology on numerous occasions. His first novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. His recent work includes WINTER HONEYMOON (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), SURRENDERING APPOMATTOX (C&R Press, 2019), AMAZING THINGS ARE HAPPENING HERE (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), and THE CYNIC IN EXTREMIS (Able Muse Appel, 2018). Jacob holds graduate degrees from Brown University, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Harvard Law School, New York University's MFA program in fiction and Albany Medical College's Alden March Institute of Bioethics. He taught for many years at Brown University and currently teaches at the Gotham Writers' Workshop and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781908885111 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908885114 |
| Title | The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up |
| Author | Jacob M Appel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Freight Books |
| Year published | 2012-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |