title: Walter Schneir
text: # Walter Schneir
  
  Walter Schneir (December 14, 1927, Brooklyn – April 11, 2009, Pleasantville, New York) was an American author.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Walter Daniel Schneir was born in Brooklyn, New York and lived in Albany, New York.
  
  ## Career
  
  After graduating from Syracuse University, where he majored in journalism, he worked in New York City at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and at MD Medical Newsmagazine. In his career as a free-lance writer, he authored articles on science, politics, education, and law. His work appeared in The Nation, the Reporter, Liberation, the New York Times Magazine, and other national publications. His book on the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Invitation to an Inquest, co-authored with his wife, Miriam Schneir, was published in 1965. Subsequent editions appeared in the United States in 1968, 1973, and 1983, and in Great Britain and Cuba. An anthology, Telling it Like It Was: The Chicago Riots, appeared in 1969. Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case, with Preface and Afterword by Miriam Schneir, was published posthumously.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Schneir is survived by his wife Miriam (1933- ), and a daughter, two sons, and four grandchildren.
  
  