Laura J. Snyder (born 1964) is an American historian, philosopher, and writer. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She writes narrative-driven non-fiction books including, most recently, Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing, which won the Society for the History of Technology’s 2016 Sally Hacker Prize. Snyder also writes for The Wall Street Journal and lives in New York City. She was a philosophy professor at St. John’s University for twenty-one years.