LEVY/SLOAN FFELLOW 2019 – 2020

Laura Snyder

For a biography on Oliver Sacks

Laura J. Snyder WAS the first Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan fellow, for the biography of Oliver Sacks.  Snyder is the author of three books, most recently Eye of the Beholder (2015), which won the 2016 Sally Hacker Prize of the Society for the History of Technology. Her reviews and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Magazine, and elsewhere.  She has a B.A. from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. She was a philosophy professor at St. John’s College for twenty-one years. Snyder has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.