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Douglas Preston

Autor/a de Relic

103+ obres 72,249 Membres 2,358 Ressenyes 175 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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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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Sèrie

Obres de Douglas Preston

Relic (1995) 5,238 exemplars
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002) 4,029 exemplars
Reliquary (1997) 3,598 exemplars
The Book of the Dead (2006) 3,525 exemplars
Brimstone (2004) 3,392 exemplars
The Wheel Of Darkness (2007) 3,106 exemplars
Dance of Death (2005) 3,060 exemplars
Still Life with Crows (2003) 3,040 exemplars
The Monster of Florence (2008) 2,610 exemplars
Cemetery Dance (2009) 2,368 exemplars
Thunderhead (1999) 2,253 exemplars
Fever Dream (2010) 2,226 exemplars
Riptide (1998) 2,149 exemplars
Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005) 2,080 exemplars
El Códice Maya (2003) 2,076 exemplars
The Ice Limit (2000) 1,962 exemplars
Mount Dragon (1996) 1,731 exemplars
Blasphemy (2008) 1,638 exemplars
Cold Vengeance (2011) 1,573 exemplars
Two Graves (2012) 1,515 exemplars
White Fire (2013) 1,406 exemplars
Gideon's Sword (2011) 1,405 exemplars
Impact (2010) 1,329 exemplars
Blue Labyrinth (2014) 1,236 exemplars
Crimson Shore (2015) 1,087 exemplars
Gideon's Corpse (2012) 910 exemplars
The Obsidian Chamber (2016) 905 exemplars
City of Endless Night (2018) 872 exemplars
The Lost Island (2014) 818 exemplars
Old Bones (2019) — Autor — 783 exemplars
Verses for the Dead (2018) 743 exemplars
Beyond the Ice Limit (2016) 600 exemplars
Crooked River (2020) 584 exemplars
Bloodless (2021) 522 exemplars
The Scorpion's Tail (2021) 517 exemplars
The Kraken Project (2014) 515 exemplars
The Pharoah Key (2018) 499 exemplars
Diablo Mesa (2022) 352 exemplars
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (2023) 334 exemplars
Extraction (2012) 277 exemplars
Jennie (1994) 215 exemplars
Dead Mountain (2023) 191 exemplars
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel (2022) — Editor; Col·laborador — 130 exemplars
The Lost Tomb (2023) 85 exemplars
Extinction: A Novel (2023) 18 exemplars
The Forgotten Killer (2014) 15 exemplars
Headhunt - Feldzug der Rache (2018) 7 exemplars
Riptide [abridged audiobook] (1998) — Autor — 4 exemplars
Le Cabinet du Dr Leng (2023) 2 exemplars
L'antre du diable (2022) 2 exemplars
O ‰vÂirus do apocalipse (2013) 2 exemplars
A sötétség kereke (2008) 1 exemplars
La costa cremisi (2016) 1 exemplars
Il fiume del male (2023) 1 exemplars
Strangers 1 exemplars
Desperation 1 exemplars
Kirjavaliot (2007) 1 exemplars
Monsieur Bertin 1 exemplars
Nel fuoco 1 exemplars
Pendergast Series, Volumes 1-7 (2007) 1 exemplars
L'uomo che scrive ai morti (2020) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night (2006) — Col·laborador — 756 exemplars
FaceOff (2014) — Col·laborador — 501 exemplars
The Big Book of Adventure Stories (2011) — Pròleg — 113 exemplars
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 (2021) — Col·laborador — 100 exemplars
In Search of Ice Age Americans (2002) — Pròleg — 27 exemplars
National Geographic Magazine 2015 v228 #4 October (2015) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Reader's Digest Select Editions 1998 v06 #240 (1998) — Autor — 9 exemplars
Válogatott könyvek (2000) 4 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Nom oficial
Preston, Douglas J.
Data de naixement
1956-05-26
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Llocs de residència
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Round Pond, Maine, USA
Educació
Pomona College
Cambridge School of Weston
Professions
editor
writer
manager of publications
professor
research associate
School of American Research (Boardmember)
Relacions
Preston, Richard (brother)
Dickinson, Emily (Ancestor)
Organitzacions
American Museum of Natural History
The Atlantic Monthly
Smithsonian
The New Yorker
Laboratory of Anthropology (Santa Fe)
PEN New Mexico
Agent
Eric Simonoff (Janklow & Nesbit Associates)
Matthew Snyder
Biografia breu
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.
Nota de desambiguació
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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Ressenyes

Hacía ya dieciséis años que el padre de Nora Kelly había desaparecido en una búsqueda arqueológica. Y aunque su cuerpo nunca fue encontrado, finalmente, se le dio por muerto. Ahora, la joven Kelly ha descubierto una carta escrita por su progenitor que relata, con extraordinarios detalles, su último y sorprendente trabajo de investigación sobre la mítica Quivira, la ciudad sagrada de los indios anaszi, cubierta de oro y plata. Un lugar enclavado en el terreno del mito... pero también de la maldición.… (més)
 
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Estadístiques

Obres
103
També de
28
Membres
72,249
Popularitat
#175
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
2,358
ISBN
1,685
Llengües
23
Preferit
175

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