Douglas Preston

: January 10, 2024
: Novelist

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Full Name	Douglas Preston
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	May 20, 1956(1956-05-20)
Age	68
Birthplace	Cambridge
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Douglas Preston Biography

Name	Douglas Preston
Birthday	May 20
Birth Year	1956
Place Of Birth	Cambridge
Home Town	England
Birth Country	United Kingdom
Birth Sign	Taurus
Siblings	Richard Preston, David Preston
Spouse	Christine Preston
Children(s)	Aletheia Preston, Isaac Preston, Selene Preston

Douglas Preston is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on May 20, 1956 in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.

From 1978 to 1985, Preston worked for the American Museum of Natural History 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. 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. 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. 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. Preston participated in an expedition that led to the discovery of an ancient city in an unexplored valley in the Mosquitia mountains of Eastern Honduras, which he chronicled in a nonfiction book, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story. On that expedition he and other expedition members contracted an incurable tropical disease known as mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, for which he received treatment at the National Institutes of Health. In 1989 and 1990 he taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. In 2019, he was elected President of the Authors Guild, and he has also been active in the International Thriller Writers organization.

Douglas Preston Net Worth

Net Worth	$5 Million
Source Of Income	Novelist
House	Living in own house.

Douglas Preston is one of the richest Novelist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Douglas Preston 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Douglas Jerome Preston (born May 31, 1956) is an American journalist and author. Although he is best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child (including the Agent Pendergast series and Gideon Crew series), he has also written six solo novels, including the Wyman Ford series and a novel entitled Jennie, which was made into a movie by Disney. He has authored a half-dozen nonfiction books on science and exploration and writes occasionally for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and other magazines.

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Who is Douglas Preston Dating?

According to our records, Douglas Preston married to Christine Preston. As of December 1, 2023, Douglas Preston’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2014, during a disagreement over terms between Hachette Book Group and Amazon.com, Inc., Preston initiated an effort which became known as Authors United. During the contract dispute, books by Hachette authors faced significant shipment delays, blocked availability, and reduced discounts on the Amazon website. Frustrated with tactics he felt unjustly injured authors who were caught in the middle, Preston began garnering the support of like- minded authors from a variety of publishers. In the first open letter from Authors United, over 900 signatories urged Amazon to resolve the dispute and end the policy of sanctions, while calling on readers to contact CEO Jeff Bezos to express their support of authors. Not long after, a second open letter, signed by over 1100 authors, was sent to Amazon’s board of directors asking if they personally approved the policy of hindering the sale of certain books.

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Eduard Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Douglas Preston celebrates birthday on May 20 of every year.

In 2015, Preston took part in an expedition into the Mosquitia mountains of Honduras that penetrated one of the last scientifically unexplored areas on the surface of the earth. The expedition, led by Steve Elkins and sponsored by Benenson Productions, the Honduran government, and National Geographic magazine, explored a previously unknown pre-Columbian city built by a mysterious civilization that had been influenced by the Maya, but was not Maya itself. The city was discovered in an area long rumored to contain a legendary “lost city” known as La Ciudad Blanca, the White City, or the Lost City of the Monkey God. The extensive archaeological site, in a remote valley ringed by mountains, had been discovered in 2012 in an aerial overflight by a team using the powerful technology of lidar (Light Detection and Ranging), able to map the terrain under dense, triple-canopy jungle.

What did Douglas Preston write?

Preston wrote about that discovery in his 2017 nonfiction book, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story , which became a #1 New York Times bestseller. Preston was one of many on the expedition who contracted an aggressive parasitic disease, called mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, in the lost city.

How old is Douglas Preston?

66 years (May 20, 1956)

Will there be a Pendergast book in 2022?

Bloodless (Agent Pendergast Series, 21) Paperback – April 26, 2022.

What order do you read Preston and Child books?

Three novels that, together, form the story of Agent Pendergast’s epic confrontation with his brother, Diogenes. These books, in order, are: Brimstone, Dance of Death and The Book of the Dead.