Douglas Preston is an award-winning author of dozens of bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles. He writes about archaeology and anthropology for The New Yorker, taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University, and served as president of The Authors Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest association of authors and journalists. Growing up in Massachusetts with two equally curious and adventuresome brothers, it’s no wonder he became one of the country’s premier authors of suspense and intrigue.
Preston’s early experience as an editor and writer at the American Museum of Natural History allowed him to create compelling, realistic stories of exploration, plunder, and mystery. Relic, the first novel in the Pendergast series co-authored with Lincoln Child, follows FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast as he unravels one grisly murder after another. Preston has also earned a reputation as a meticulous investigator of real-life mysteries, with works like The Monster of Florence, the true story of a serial killer who terrorized young couples for over a decade, and The Lost City of the Monkey God, about his own trek into the Honduran jungle in search of pre-Columbian ruins.
Preston has received countless honors for his work, including an Edgar, an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Pomona College, and an appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His books have been adapted for film and television.
