Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston is an American journalist and author who is best known for thrillers written with Lincoln Child, including the Agent Pendergast series that opens with Relic and the Gideon Crew novels. He has also written solo fiction, among it the Wyman Ford series beginning with Tyrannosaur Canyon, and the novel Jennie, which Disney adapted as The Jennie Project. Alongside his fiction he has written a half-dozen nonfiction books on science and exploration, including The Monster of Florence, and he contributes occasionally to The New Yorker and Smithsonian.