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Douglas Preston

Autor(a) de Relic

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About the Author

Douglas Jerome Preston was born on May 20, 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in English literature from Pomona College in 1978. His career began at the American Museum of Natural History, where he worked as an editor and writer from 1978 to 1985. He also was a lecturer in English mostrar mais at Princeton University. He became a full-time writer of both fiction and nonfiction books in 1986. Many of his fiction works are co-written with Lincoln Child including Relic, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, and Gideon's Corpse. His nonfiction works include Dinosaurs in the Attic; Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado; Talking to the Ground; and The Royal Road. He has written for numerous magazines including The New Yorker; Natural History; Harper's; Smithsonian; National Geographic; and Travel and Leisure. He became a New York Times Best Selling author with his titles Two Graves and Crimson Shores which he co-wrote with Lincoln Child, and his titles White Fire, The Lost Island Blue Labyrinth and The Lost City of the Monkey God. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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(eng) This author is Douglas Preston. DO NOT COMBINE THIS PAGE WITH ANY JOINT PAGES OF DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are two different people, who have written books collaboratively and separately. Their author pages should not be combined with each other, or with any of the variants using both their names. Please see "Who Should/Shouldn't Get combined" on the Author wiki page. Thank you.

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Séries

Obras de Douglas Preston

Relic (1995) 5,154 cópias
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002) 3,966 cópias
Reliquary (1997) 3,542 cópias
The Book of the Dead (2006) 3,472 cópias
Brimstone (2004) 3,349 cópias
The Wheel Of Darkness (2007) 3,051 cópias
Dance of Death (2005) 3,018 cópias
Still Life with Crows (2003) 2,987 cópias
The Monster of Florence (2008) 2,563 cópias
Cemetery Dance (2009) 2,321 cópias
Thunderhead (1999) 2,221 cópias
Fever Dream (2010) 2,180 cópias
Riptide (1998) 2,123 cópias
The Codex (2003) 2,054 cópias
Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005) 2,054 cópias
The Ice Limit (2000) 1,929 cópias
Mount Dragon (1996) 1,708 cópias
Blasphemy (2008) 1,621 cópias
Cold Vengeance (2011) 1,541 cópias
Two Graves (2012) 1,485 cópias
Gideon's Sword (2011) 1,378 cópias
White Fire (2013) 1,369 cópias
Impact (2010) 1,306 cópias
Blue Labyrinth (2014) 1,204 cópias
Crimson Shore (2015) 1,054 cópias
Gideon's Corpse (2012) 887 cópias
The Obsidian Chamber (2016) 870 cópias
City of Endless Night (2018) 844 cópias
The Lost Island (2014) 796 cópias
Old Bones (2019) — Autor — 737 cópias
Verses for the Dead (2018) 711 cópias
Beyond the Ice Limit (2016) 580 cópias
Crooked River (2020) 557 cópias
The Kraken Project (2014) 507 cópias
Bloodless (2021) 480 cópias
The Scorpion's Tail (2021) 476 cópias
The Pharoah Key (2018) 472 cópias
Diablo Mesa (2022) 322 cópias
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (2023) 289 cópias
Extraction (2012) 277 cópias
Jennie (1994) 213 cópias
Dead Mountain (2023) 149 cópias
The Forgotten Killer (2014) 15 cópias
The Lost Tomb (2020) 14 cópias
Extinction: A Novel (2023) 6 cópias
Riptide [abridged audiobook] (1998) — Autor — 4 cópias
L'antre du diable (2022) 2 cópias
Desperation 1 exemplar(es)
Nel fuoco 1 exemplar(es)
Strangers 1 exemplar(es)
Kirjavaliot (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Monsieur Bertin 1 exemplar(es)
Pendergast Series, Volumes 1-7 (2007) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night (2006) — Contribuinte — 743 cópias
FaceOff (2014) — Contribuinte — 496 cópias
The Big Book of Adventure Stories (2011) — Prefácio — 110 cópias
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 (2021) — Contribuinte — 91 cópias
In Search of Ice Age Americans (2002) — Prefácio — 27 cópias
National Geographic Magazine 2015 v228 #4 October (2015) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
Livros condensados (1998) — Autor — 10 cópias
Reader's Digest Select Editions 1998 v06 #240 (1998) — Autor — 9 cópias
Válogatott könyvek (2000) 4 cópias
Livros condensados (1987) 4 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Preston, Douglas J.
Data de nascimento
1956-05-26
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Locais de residência
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Round Pond, Maine, USA
Educação
Pomona College
Cambridge School of Weston
Ocupação
editor
writer
manager of publications
professor
research associate
School of American Research (Boardmember)
Relacionamentos
Preston, Richard (brother)
Dickinson, Emily (Ancestor)
Organizações
American Museum of Natural History
The Atlantic Monthly
Smithsonian
The New Yorker
Laboratory of Anthropology (Santa Fe)
PEN New Mexico
Agente
Eric Simonoff (Janklow & Nesbit Associates)
Matthew Snyder
Pequena biografia
Douglas Preston is the author of thirty-five books, both fiction and nonfiction, twenty-two of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with several reaching the number 1 position. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, RELIC, co-authored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie by Paramount Pictures, which launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, is also in production as a film. His latest book, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, tells the true story of the discovery of a prehistoric city in an unexplored valley deep in the Honduran jungle. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. He is past co-president of International Thriller Writers and serves on the board of the Authors Guild. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards in the US and Europe, including an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Pomona College.
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This author is Douglas Preston. DO NOT COMBINE THIS PAGE WITH ANY JOINT PAGES OF DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are two different people, who have written books collaboratively and separately. Their author pages should not be combined with each other, or with any of the variants using both their names. Please see "Who Should/Shouldn't Get combined" on the Author wiki page. Thank you.

Membros

Resenhas

AUTHOR: Douglas Preston

TW/CW: Death, murder, brutality, violence, language

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2

REVIEW: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley and Tor Publishing Group and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

Extinction is a mystery novel that takes place after the murder of two hikers in a Jurassic Park-like refuge that has brought wooly mammoths and other large mammals back to life.

This is a fast-moving and entertaining novel, and I enjoyed reading it. It’s a unique story, and although I figured it out well before the end, it was still interesting to read.

My biggest problem with this book is the almost complete lack of character development. While the story was interesting, I sadly did not find the characters to be so at all. They simply were not 3D characters, and the lack of development made the characters difficult to tell apart.

This book would probably appeal more to people who enjoy mysteries more than I do. While having its faults, this is still an enjoyable book.
… (mais)
½
 
Marcado
Anniik | Nov 19, 2023 |
Love the series. But, please, loose the sound effects on future audio books. Can not wait for the next installment of the series
 
Marcado
cfulton20 | outras 18 resenhas | Nov 13, 2023 |
Love this series. I read book 2 first. Live how Pendergast visited the scene.
 
Marcado
cfulton20 | outras 47 resenhas | Nov 13, 2023 |
I enjoy this series. Funny, sarcastic humor.
 
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cfulton20 | outras 28 resenhas | Nov 13, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
93
Also by
27
Membros
70,471
Popularidade
#183
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
2,293
ISBNs
1,678
Idiomas
23
Favorito
175
Pedras de toque
932

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