He graduated and then started working in New York at the American Museum of Natural History as a writer, editor, and then manager of publications. Preston went to California to attend Pomona College, majoring in English literature. The author says it’s a miracle they got out of childhood intact. The brothers were celebrities locally and often appeared in the ‘Police Notes’ part of their local paper. They once tried to fly a rocket into Wellesley Square that went wrong and almost killed a man out mowing his lawn. He would roam around the neighborhood with Richard and David, their little brother, doing things like launching their own homemade rockets. When he was three, he lost his fingertip to a bicycle, and also had several broken bones and lost his front teeth to the fist of his brother Richard, who would go on to pen books The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event. He went to private nursery school, attended public school and then the Cambridge School of Weston. Douglas Preston is an accomplished author of fiction.ĭouglas was born in 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the suburb of Wellesley.
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