Charles Neider (January 18, 1915 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire – July 4, 2001, in Princeton, New Jersey) was an American writer, known for editing the Autobiography of Mark Twain and authoring literary impressions of Antarctica.
His 1956 novel, The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, was freely adapted[1] into the movie One-Eyed Jacks (1961) starring and directed by Marlon Brando.
Between 1969 and 1977, he participated in three expeditions to Antarctica funded by the National Science Foundation[2] and the United States Navy.
He wrote about these trips in "Edge of the World: Ross Island, Antarctica" (1974, dedicated to James F. Brandau and "Beyond Cape Horn: Travels in the Antarctic"(1980).
[4] The novel also concerns a plane crash with 256 passengers on board,[5] so it is possibly a fictional combination of his 1971 experience and the 1979 Mount Erebus Disaster.