BOB BIDERMAN is a novelist, editor and social historian. He spent his early adulthood in California, studying Science, Literature and Sociology at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. In the 1960s he worked in the Preventive Medicine Department of the US Army whilst doing his National Service. During the 70s he helped develop an international Arts-in-Education magazine, based in San Francisco, which he managed for several years. He moved to Europe in the 80s, living in France and then Britain, where he settled in 1984. Since then he has worked as a writer, college lecturer and editor. His novels, mysteries and social histories have been widely published in England, France and the United States - by Gollancz, Hachette, Pluto, Walker, Chivers Atlantic, Contemporary Literature Series and Black Apollo Press. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, Independent, Visions of the City and Cafe¿ Magazine.