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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.
Preston has published five nonfiction books and thirteen novels, most of which were bestsellers and translated into many languages. With his frequent collaborator, Lincoln Child, he has co-authored such bestselling thrillers as ''The Cabinet of Curiosities'', ''The Ice Limit'', ''Thunderhead'', ''Riptide'', ''Brimstone'' and ''Relic''. Their most recent novel, ''The Book of the Dead'', which came out in June 2006, was on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for six weeks. Preston writes about archeology for the ''New Yorker'' magazine and he has also been published in ''Smithsonian'' magazine, ''Harper's'', and ''National Geographic''. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards.
From 1978 to 1985, Preston worked for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City as a writer, editor, and manager of publications. He served as Managing Editor for the journal Curator and was a columnist for Natural History magazine. In 1985 he published a history of the museum, ''Dinosaurs In The Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History'', which chronicled the explorers and expeditions of the museum's early days.
In 1986 Preston moved to New Mexico and began to write full-time. Seeking an understanding of the first moment of contact between Europeans and Indians in America, he retraced on horseback Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's violent and unsuccessful search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. That thousand mile journey across the American Southwest resulted in the book, ''Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest''. Since that time Preston has undertaken many long horseback journeys retracing historic or prehistoric trails. He has also participated in expeditions in other parts of the world, including a journey deep into Khmer Rouge-held territory in the Cambodian jungle with a small army of soldiers, to be the first Westerner to visit a lost Angkor temple. He once had the thrill of being the first person in 3,000 years to enter an ancient Egyptian burial chamber in a tomb known as KV5 in the Valley of the Kings.
Preston counts in his ancestry the poet Emily Dickinson, the newspaperman Horace Greeley, and the infamous murderer and opium addict Amasa Greenough. He and his wife, Christine, live in Maine with their three children.

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Novels with Lincoln Child

Solo works

See also

External links

Novels with Lincoln Child

★ ''Relic'' (1995)

★ ''Mount Dragon'' (1996)

★ ''Reliquary'' (1997)

★ ''Riptide'' (1998)

★ ''Thunderhead'' (1999)

★ ''The Ice Limit'' (2000)

★ ''The Cabinet of Curiosities'' (2002)

★ ''Still Life with Crows'' (2003)

★ ''Brimstone'' (2004)

★ ''Dance of Death'' (2005)

★ ''The Book of the Dead'' (2006)

★ ''The Wheel of Darkness'' (2007)

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)

★ ''Blasphemy'' (2008)

See also

• Agent Pendergast

External links

★ The Official Douglas Preston - Lincoln Child Web Site