Richard Preston
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Famous for his bestselling thriller The Hot Zone, as well as for his 2002 work The Demon in the Freezer, this fiction and nonfiction author also worked as a journalist for the New Yorker.
Before Fame
He and his brother, fellow top-selling writer Douglas Preston, grew up near Boston, Massachusetts. The brothers both graduated from Pomona College in Southern California.
Trivia
He published his debut nonfiction work, First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe, in the late 1980s. His first novel, The Cobra Event, followed a decade later.
Family Life
He and his wife, Michelle, settled in New Jersey with their three children.
Associated With
In 2011, Preston finished writing Micro, a novel that author Michael Crichton had been working on at the time of his death.
