Paul Miles Schneider with Grant Menzies at the Oz-Stravaganza! parade.Paul Miles Schneider's photos and post cards by Margaret Hamilton, with his Silver Shoes.Paul Miles Schneider speaks to students about Silver Shoes.Paul Miles Schneider's books. "Silver Shoes," "The Powder of Life," and "The Magic Belt."More Than Tongue Can Tell, book by Paul Miles Schneider and Andrea King.

PAUL MILES SCHNEIDER was born in New York City and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. At various times he has been an actor, writer, composer, singer, and arranger. In 2010, he relocated to the Midwest from Los Angeles, where he spent a decade producing and designing DVD/Blu-ray menus and interactive content for Hollywood films and television shows.

“Silver Shoes,” was his first novel, selected as a 2010 Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book and the State Library of Kansas. A sequel, “The Powder of Life,” was released in 2012. A combined edition of the two books was offered in 2013, under the title, “The Complete, Incomplete Adventures of Donald Gardner and the Silver Shoes.” Next came a biography co-authored with Warner Bros. film star Andrea King, entitled “More Than Tongue Can Tell,” which was published in 2014. His latest entry, establishing a trilogy in the “Silver Shoes” series, is “The Magic Belt,” published in 2018.