Jeff Schnader’s first novel, The Serpent Papers, is about the Vietnam War era and was published by The Permanent Press in 2022. It was edited by Richard Marek (editor of Hemingway, Baldwin, Patterson, Ludlum) who said that the writing was “extraordinary” and the manuscript “the best” he had read that year. It won “Grand Prize 2nd Place” and “Outstanding Historical Fiction 1st Place,” IAN Fiction Book of the Year Awards. It was also “Bronze Winner,” Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards. It was named “Finalist” in four other novel competitions. Having been represented by Johanna Ramos-Boyer Communications, Jeff avidly promoted his book and was interviewed on radio across the U.S. and in Europe. He has also promoted The Serpent Papers on social media with one author post achieving over 3 million hits.

Jeff’s current manuscript, To Be Hamlet, was named “Finalist” in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Mystery Fiction, 2026, “Finalist” in the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Fiction Competition, 2025, and “Finalist” in several other pre-publication competitions. His short stories have been published, and his story, “The Champion,” won 1st Prize in the Utah Quills Awards. He is a member of the Authors Guild, the Columbia Fiction Foundry, the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, and the De Vere Society (UK) and has read extensively on the Shakespeare authorship question.

Prior to writing novels, Jeff was a physician and Professor of Medicine. He was a medical journal editor, ran an ICU, and authored over 40 medical publications, including in The New England Journal of Medicine.