Laura J. Snyder

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 [https://llcb.ws.gc.cuny.edu/fellowships/current-fellows/ Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow] at [https://llcb.ws.gc.cuny.edu/ The Leon Levy Center for Biography] at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and is the recipient of an NEH [https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-284-million-239-humanities-projects-nationwide 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. 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. 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. Provided by Wikipedia