Jeff Schnader
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Jeff Schnader

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JEFF SCHNADER is an author of fiction living in Norfolk, Virginia. His Vietnam War era novel, The Serpent Papers, was published by the traditional publishing house, The Permanent Press, in March, 2022. It has been reviewed in major newspapers & magazines and on radio. He was at Columbia University in 1972 where he participated in sit-ins, marches and demonstrations against the Vietnam War, including a protest-turned-riot in front of Hamilton Hall where students were beaten by the New York Tactical Police in full battle regalia. Scenes in The Serpent Papers are authentic because he was there. The Serpent Papers is a "Bronze Winner" in the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards, 2022. It is a "Finalist" in the Indie Excellence Awards 2023 and was a short-listed finalist in the 2021 Blue Moon Novel Competition. The Serpent Papers was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a Chautauqua Award. Selected chapters from The Serpent Papers and, more recently, his short stories, The Oma and Durango, were published in The Write Launch Literary Journal. His short story, The Champion, won first prize in the 2020 Annual Quills Contest (LUW; see Authors Guild announcement) and was published in the October, 2022, issue of the Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo). His essays have been published in Audere Literary Magazine, Bookscover2cover, and The Write Launch. He has been interviewed on radio across America and Europe over 30 times, including stations in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Madrid and London, as well as on NPR and in print in Foreword Reviews, Bookscover2cover, and the Columbia Fiction Foundry. An excerpt of his forthcoming novel, Star Chamber, was published October, 2022, in Audere Literary Magazine, and he is also writing a third novel about a dramatist in 16th Century England. He is a member of Chesapeake Bay Writers, Hampton Roads Writers, Authors Guild, Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, and The De Vere Society (UK) After graduating from Columbia with a BA in physics, he received his medical degree (MD, CM) from McGill University with further work at Johns Hopkins. He recently retired as full Professor of Medicine after authoring over 50 scientific publications and chairing & speaking at hundreds of national medical conferences. He has taught at University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Wright State University and Eastern Virginia Medical College. He was a frequent guest on National Public Radio's (NPR's) “Sound Health” and has been awarded for teaching and for editing a renowned medical journal. He worked full-time in the Department of Veteran’s Affairs for 22 years (15 years running an ICU), serving American war veterans, including those of The Vietnam War. See Jeff Schnader's Author's Website (with links to his online journal publications) at: https://jschnaderauthor.com See where his novel, THE SERPENT PAPERS, appears on the Columbia Alumni Association's Bookshelf page at: https://alumni.columbia.edu/content/serpent-papers
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