Gary Shapiro is an American journalist. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School he has written for numerous publications including The New York Sun (where he penned the "Knickerbocker" column)^[1] , The Forward and The Wall Street Journal. He is also a former contributing editor to The American Scholar magazine.

While at the New York Sun he wrote on the Frederick Brockway Gleason III case in Savannah, Georgia. The victim was a direct descendant of the family which had once published the New York Sun's forerunner The Sun.^[2]

Shapiro formerly served on the board of directors and is the current admissions committee chair of the National Arts Club in New York City. He also was a board member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars and served out a term which ended in 2014.^[3]