Don J. Snyder

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Don J. Snyder is an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in Pennsylvania in 1950 , Snyder grew up in Bangor, Maine. 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 a prestigious Teaching-Writing Fellowship. He was awarded a James Michener Fellowship for his first novel. ^[1]

Snyder has written five novels, published by Random House, Alfred A. Knopf, Simon and Schuster and Doubleday as well as three non-fiction books. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2003 Hallmark Hall Of Fame Christmas movie "Fallen Angel".

Snyder's books deal with the accommodations we make to bridge the distance between how we dream our lives will turn out and how they actually turn out. All of his books have been reviewed nationally and translated into German, French, Portuguese,and other languages.^{[citation needed]} In 1997, Kathleen Kennedy ("Schindler's List") and Disney bought the film rights to Snyder's book "The Cliff Walk" and signed Curtis Hansen ("LA Confidential") to direct. His 1987 book "A Soldier's Disgrace" was bought by Paramount Pictures who still own the film rights.^{[citation needed]} In 1998, he went to Omagh, Northern Ireland 30 hours after the bombing and then wrote his novel "Night Crossing" against that backdrop.^{[citation needed]}