Biography

Andrew Neiderman was born on October 26, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Devil's Advocate (1997), Aura and Rain (2006). He has been married to Diane Wilson since February 8, 1964. They have two children.

Andrew Neiderman was born in Brooklyn. His family moved to the Catskills of New York when he was an infant. He is a graduate of State University of Albany where he received his Masters in English. He taught at Fallsburg High School for 23 years before leaving to pursue a career as a novelist and screenwriter. As a teacher, he served as department chairman, faculty president, county teachers association president, director of dramatics and wrestling coach. After author Virginia C. Andrews' death in 1986, previously a ghostwriter working with her, he continued the series' she had begun. The last book she wrote was "Dark Angel" (1986) (part of the Casteel series), and since then, Neiderman has been writing the books and putting them out under her name.

He has two children: a son, Erik, and a daughter, Melissa.