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. Wikipedia
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