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Don Snyder
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He graduated from Colby College in 1968 and earned a Masters Of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1986 where he was chosen for their prestigious Teaching-Writing Fellowship. In 1997 He moved his family to the seaside village of Saint Andrews, New Brunswick where he created a Writing Retreat for new Master of Fine Arts graduates
Career
He was awarded a James Michener Fellowship for his first novel. He taught at Colgate University, Colby College, The University of Maine, and Columbia College. TheWritingRetreat.com.
They eloped in Winchester England where she was teaching at the time, then rode the Night Ryder train from London to Scotland to begin their honeymoon.
In 1987 they lived in County Wicklow, Ireland with two babies while Don wrote his second novel, From The Point. In 2008 Don returned to Scotland to work as a caddie.
Across the forty years of his writing life, Snyder had the chance to teach for nine years at Colgate University, Colby College, The University of Maine in Orono and Farmington, Columbia College and Western Connecticut State University. Snyder is the author of six novels and four nonfiction books published by Alfred A Knopf, Little Brown, Random House, Simon & Schuster and 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 movie, "Fallen Angel" which was based on his novel and which starred Joely Richardson and Gary Sinise.
His work appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Harper"s Magazine.
