Personal Life
Joan Snyder was born in 1940 in Highland Park, New Jersey. In 1962, she received her BA from Douglass Residential College, which is part of Rutgers University. In 1966, she received her MFA from Douglass.
In 1969, she married Larry Fink. Snyder had a miscarriage but later gave birth to a daughter named Molly in 1979. Snyder and Fink lived in a farm in Pennsylvania before getting divorced later.
In 1980, Snyder moved to Mulberry Street in Manhattan where she raised her daughter and painted in a nearby studio. She later became afflicted with Lyme Disease. In 1989, she moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn so that she could be with her new partner, Maggie Cammer, who is a New York City Civil Court judge.
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