Douglas Preston

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Douglas Preston (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an author of several techno-thriller and horror novels with Lincoln Child.

A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California, Preston began his writing career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In addition to his collaborations with Child, he has written a novel and several non-fiction books of his own, mainly dealing with the history of the American Southwest. He is a contributing writer for Smithsonian, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker magazines. He has two brothers, one David Preston (a medical doctor), and Richard Preston, who became himself a best-selling fiction/non-fiction author.

[edit] Novels with Lincoln Child

[edit] Solo works

  • Dinosaurs In The Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History (1986)
  • Jennie (1994)
  • Talking to the Ground: One Family's Journey on Horseback Across the Sacred Land of the Navajo (1996)
  • Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest (1999)
  • The Codex (2004)
  • Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005)

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