Marcel Schneider

Marcel Schneider
Schneider's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Born	11 August 1913 Levallois-Perret
Died	22 January 2009(2009-01-22) (aged 95) Paris
Occupation	Writer

Marcel Schneider (11 August 1913 – 22 January 2009) was a French writer, laureate of numerous literary awards.

Schneider was born in a family of Alsatian origin who chose France after 1871. An agrégé es letters, he taught in Rouen (Jean Lecanuet was among his students), before devoting himself entirely to literature and music. He came to live in Paris and became a member of the publishing house Grasset.

Both as a writer and as a historian of literature, he was an adept of fantastic literature. He recognized three masters in the fantastic field: Charles Nodier, Gérard de Nerval and Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.

A very good connoisseur of music, he published works on Schubert and Wagner and traced the history of the ballet since Louis XIV.

A sympathizer of the Action française, he was close to writers as different as André Gide, Georges Dumézil and Paul Morand who bequeathed him his wardrobe. He also attended literary salons including those of Marie-Laure de Noailles, Solange de La Baume, Josette Day and Florence Gould ().

In the 1980s, he regularly wrote in Le Quotidien de Paris (Groupe Quotidien ()), founded and directed by Philippe Tesson ().