Sneider, Martin: - A fashion retailing legend, MARTIN SNEIDER has been a leader in the shoe and clothing industry for decades and has served as a multi-award-winning adjunct professor of retailing at the Olin school of Business at Washington University since 1992. At the Olin School of Business, Martin created and taught a course devoted to luxury goods merchandising and marketing that included trips with students to Milan, Paris, and London to visit the showrooms of Armani, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Burberry, and Cartier.A fourth-generation retailer, Martin started as a shoe salesman and rose to president, co-CEO, and chief merchant of one of the nation's largest fashion shoe and apparel specialty chains. He has served on the Alumni Board of Directors of Harvard Business School, is past chairman of St. Louis Children's Hospital, and received the Distinguished Alumni award from Washington University. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Toast, How a Leading Retailer Went From Toast of the Town to Just Plain Toast, a nonfiction book on the shoe industry, and Shelf Life, the first novel in the Feldman Family Saga series. Amy Unbound is his second novel of a projected series of five novels about fashion, fame and family. Martin has two children and four granddaughters and lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and New York City.