The Author

 

 

Roy S. Neuberger, author of 2020 Vision

     Roy Neuberger’s first book, the autobiographical “From Central Park to Sinai—How I Found My Jewish Soul,” was published in 2000. This was followed by ’Worldstorm – Finding Meaning and Direction Amidst Today’s World Crisis,” in 2003, in which he analyzes world affairs through the perspective of Torah.  Now, in 2020 Vision, Roy, in an autobiographical divination of future events, confronts a bleak, surreal apocalyptic world, eerily reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.”

     After earning an M.A. in English from the University of Michigan, with additional studies at Balliol College, Oxford University, Roy enjoyed an eclectic career before becoming a full time author and speaker.

     He has worked as a National Park Service Ranger and Fire Lookout, a copy editor at The Long Island Press, and publisher and editor of a weekly newspaper, The Cornwall Local in Cornwall, NY.  Roy also served as a religious school administrator and was Director of Conservation for New York City; he also managed a hedge fund.

     Throughout his childhood and young adulthood, Roy lived the life of a secular, non-practicing Jew.  However, he felt unfulfilled and for years explored many religions and lifestyles searching for a meaning to life.  At the age of 30, Roy and his wife, Leah attended services in a synagogue for the first time, at the invitation of a friend.  After finding and studying their own lost heritage, they adopted a classic Jewish lifestyle based on Torah law. Their life changed profoundly.  The darkness in Roy’s heart was dispelled, and, as he puts it, “the sun began to shine for me.” 

     Roy’s father, also named Roy, a prominent financier, founded Neuberger-Berman, a money management firm acquired by Lehman Brothers in 2003.  Now 105 years of age, Mr. Neuberger senior is a renowned art collector who donated his extensive collection to the State of New York, where it is displayed at the Neuberger Museum at the State University Campus at Purchase, NY.  Mr. Neuberger Senior received the National Medal of Arts from President Bush in November, 2008.