Laura J. Snyder

Laura J. Snyder
Born	November 1964 (age 59) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Alma mater	Brandeis University Johns Hopkins University
Notable awards	· Fulbright Scholarship · Mellon Fellowship · Phi Beta Kappa · Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University · Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, CUNY · NEH Public Scholars Grant
Website
www.laurajsnyder.com

Laura J. Snyder (born 1964) is an American historian, philosopher, and writer. She is a Fulbright Scholar, is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, was the first Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow at The Leon Levy Center for Biography at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and is the recipient of an NEH Public Scholars grant. She writes narrative-driven non-fiction books including, most recently, Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing, which won the Society for the History of Technology's 2016 Sally Hacker Prize.^[1] In 2019, Snyder signed a contract with A. A. Knopf to author a biography of Oliver Sacks, based on exclusive access to the Sacks archive.^[2] Snyder also writes for The Wall Street Journal. She lives in New York City, where she was a philosophy professor at St. John's University for twenty-one years.