birth_place birth_date period genre article_title name occupation alma_mater
new york city , new york , u.s. 21 february 1973 1997 -- present short story , essay , drama , novel jacob m. appel
 jacob m. appel author brown union university , new york city university of new york university , queens mount sinai medical center columbia university new york university harvard university
jacob m. appel

jacob m. appel -lrb- born february 21 , 1973 -rrb- is an american author , bioethicist , physician , lawyer and social critic .
born in the bronx and raised in scarsdale , new york , appel 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 would n't stand up '' , won the dundee international book prize in 2012 .
