Source: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Volume 13, page 386-7, editor Linda Metzger, Gale Research Company (Detroit, MI, ©1984).

PERSONAL: Surname is pronouced Ny-der-man; born October 26, 1940, in Brooklyn, N.Y.; son of George and Anne (Malisoff) Neiderman; married Diane Wilson, Feburary 8, 1964; children: Melissa Gay, Erik Richard. Education: Attended Hunter College, Bronx Campus (now Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York), 1958-1960; State University of New York at Albany, B.A., 1962, M.A., 1964. Politics: Liberal Democrat. Religion: Hebrew. Home: South Fallsburgh, N.Y. Agent: Anita Diamant, New York, N.Y. Office: Fallsburgh Central School, Fallsburgh, N.Y.

CAREER: Fallsburgh Central School, Fallsburgh, N.Y., English teacher, 1964-, audio-visual director. Town historian, Fallsburgh, 1977. Member: New York State Teachers Association, Sullivan County Teachers Council (president, 1971-72), Fallsburgh Teachers Association (president, 1969). Awards, honors: Pin was nominated by Mystery Writers of America as best paperback original of 1981.

WRITINGS-Novels: Sisters, Stein & Day, 1971; Weekend, St. Martin's, 1980; Someone's Watching, Pocket Books, 1983; Tender Loving Care, Pocket Books, 1984; Imp, Pocket Books, in press. Also author of The Sesquicentennial of Fallsburgh Township, 1976. Contributor of short stories, poetry, short plays, and articles to periodicals, including English Record, Interaction, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, Scholastic Magazine's Voice, Media and Methods, and Campaign Insight.

SIDELIGHTS: Andrew Neiderman told CA that he has been most influenced by Kurt Vonnegut. He added: "Mainly, today, I am concerned with the theme of violence. I am concered with how we are driven to acts of violence by an imposing society and [an] entrapping environment."

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