Don J. Snyder
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Don J. Snyder | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
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Don J. Snyder (born 1950, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
Literary career
[edit]Across the forty years of his writing life, Snyder taught for nine years at Colgate University, Colby College, the University of Maine (in both Orono and Farmington), Columbia College and Western Connecticut State University. This experience and raising children he has called the great privileges of his life.
Snyder is the author of six novels and four non-fiction books published by Alfred A. Knopf, Little Brown, Random House, Simon & Schuster and Doubleday.
He won a James A. Michener Fellowship for his first novel, Veterans Park.
His work has been translated into nineteen languages and is focused upon the distance between the way we dream our lives will turn out and the way they do.
He wrote the 2003 film Fallen Angel, which is based on his novel, and stars Joely Richardson and Gary Sinise.
For the last eighteen years [clarification needed], he has been working on the screenplay adaptation of his book, Of Time & Memory, which was published in 1999 by Alfred A. Knopf and tells the story of his nineteen-year-old mother who died sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother and was kept secret from him all his life.[1]
His work has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Harper's Magazine.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]- Novels
- Soldier's Disgrace: US Army Officer as POW in Korea. Dublin NH: Yankee Books. 1987. ISBN 0-89909-139-3.
- Veterans Park. Ballantine Books. 1988. ISBN 978-0-8041-0286-5.
- From the Point (1988) reprint. Ivy Books. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8041-0397-8.
- Fallen Angel. Simon and Schuster. 2001. ISBN 978-0-7434-2369-4.
- Night Crossing. Alfred A. Knopf. 2001. ISBN 978-0-375-40906-6.
- Winter dreams. Doubleday. 2004. ISBN 978-0-385-50850-6.
The Winter Travelers, a novel. publisher= Downeast Books 2012
The Tin Nose Shop, a novel published by The Legends Press in London, July 2022.
- Non-fiction
- The cliff walk : a memoir of a job lost and a life found. Little, Brown and Company. 1998. ISBN 978-0-316-80348-9.
- Of time and memory : a mother's story (1999)Alfred A. Knopf.
- Of time and memory : My Parents' Love Story. Random House. 2001. ISBN 978-0-345-42769-4. (trade paperback)
- Walking With Jack, A father's journey/ publisher=Doubleday/ 2013
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jerry Harkavy, The Associated Press (November 30, 2008). "Maine Author corrects memoir". Rutland (Vt.) Herald. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
- ^ "Snyder, Don J. (Harper's Magazine)". Archived from the original on October 5, 2008.
- ^ "Of Time and Memory by Don J. Snyder: 9780307766397 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Penguin Random House. Archived from the original on May 16, 2021. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
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