Fredric Dicker to Write Andrew Cuomo Biography The latest genre in book publishing appears to be biography of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Fredric U. Dicker, state editor of The New York Post and one of Albany's longest tenured reporters, announced on Friday that he was writing a biography of Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat elected governor in 2010. The book is to be published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins in 2013, and a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo said the governor had agreed to cooperate with it. Mr. Dicker's announcement, on his daily radio show on WGDJ-AM in Albany, came three months after another publisher, Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, said it would publish a biography of Mr. Cuomo by Michael Shnayerson, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. A spokeswoman for Grand Central said Friday that its publication date had not been set. The Cuomo spokesman, Josh Vlasto, said the governor would "make a decision on a case-by-case basis" regarding whether to cooperate with books about him or his administration. "Mr. Dicker has been reporting on Albany politics and government for 30 years and is widely acknowledged to be an expert on the topics," Mr. Vlasto said. He added that no decision had been made about whether to provide access to Mr. Shnayerson. News of Mr. Dicker's book was first reported on Thursday night by The Post, which, like HarperCollins, is owned by News Corporation.