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

An agrégé es letters, he taught in Rouen (Jean Lecanuet was among his students), before devoting himself entirely to literature and music.

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.