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Douglas Preston
Douglas Jerome Preston (born May 20, 1956) is an American author of techno-thriller and horror novels. He has written numerous novels, and although he is most well-known for his collaborations with Lincoln Child (including the ''Agent Pendergast'' series and ''Gideon Crew'' series), he has also written six solo novels, primarily including the ''Wyman Ford'' series. He also has authored a number of non-fiction books on history, science, exploration, and true crime.
==Life and career==
Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, Massachusetts, and Pomona College in Claremont, California, Preston began his writing career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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.〔http://www.prestonchild.com〕 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. The editor of that book at St. Martin's Press was his future writing partner, Lincoln Child.〔http://www.prestonchild.com/books/preston/dinosaurs/〕 They soon collaborated on a thriller set in the museum titled ''Relic''. It was subsequently made into a motion picture by Paramount Pictures starring Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, and Linda Hunt.
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 Native Americans in America, he retraced on horseback Francisco Vásquez 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, for which he was inducted into the Long Riders' Guild.〔http://www.thelongridersguild.com/members_01.htm〕 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 become the first Westerner to visit a lost Angkor temple. He was 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.〔http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/01/22/all-the-kings-sons〕 In 1989 and 1990 he taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. Currently, he's an active member of the Authors Guild,〔http://www.authorsguild.org/about/board-of-directors/〕 as well as the International Thriller Writers organization.〔http://thrillerwriters.org/about-itw/officers-and-committees/〕
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