[2] Andrea grew up in Queens, with an older sister, Rhona (who died in 2002)[2] and graduated from Bayside High School.
Peyser's first job in journalism after graduating from college was a temporary assignment for the Albany, New York, bureau of the Associated Press.
The Washington Post has described Peyser as an "object of fascination among some media observers in New York, who count her unforgiving, exuberantly spiteful columns as a guilty pleasure.
[4] In 2009, she came out with Celebutards: The Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians Who Are Destroying America through the publisher Kensington.
In her column, Peyser wrote that President Obama behaved like a "hormone-ravaged frat boy on a road trip to a strip bar".