Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston, born May 20, 1956, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an American novelist and journalist. Before writing fiction he worked at the American Museum of Natural History, the setting of "Relic" (1995), his first novel with Lincoln Child and the start of their long-running series featuring FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. The pair also write the Gideon Crew and Nora Kelly novels. On his own, Preston is the author of thrillers such as "Blasphemy" and "Extinction", and of nonfiction including "The Monster of Florence" and "The Lost City of the Monkey God". With his daughter Aletheia Preston he continues the Cash & Colcord series.