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About Richard Preston
Richard Preston’s story
I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1954, and grew up in Wellesley, a suburb of Boston.
Not to be dissuaded, Preston contacted the Dean of the University on a weekly basis until he was finally accepted.
Other works by Preston include The Boat of Dreams: A Christmas Story (2003), The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (2007), and Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science (2008).
In 1992, Preston become fascinated by the Ebola virus and wrote "Crisis in the Hot Zone” for The New Yorker.
in English. LSD scared the daylights out of me.)
In high school, my record included indifferent grades and an assault on a teacher during a protest. Later, I ran into the dean of admissions and asked him why he let me into the college.
In the afternoons I would ride my bike to the town library, where I delved into Mark Twain, Robert Heinlein, Madeleine L’Engle, Ernest Hemingway, Freddy the Pig, Arthur C.
Clarke, haiku poetry by the Japanese poet Basho … and I explored science books, especially astronomy.
I’ve been fascinated with the natural universe ever since.
High School
Here’s my first driver’s license, age 16. We have three children, all of whom are currently involved in writing and publishing.
Pomona rejected me, saying my application was far too late.
After that I made a collect call to the dean of admissions at Pomona. In 2009, Preston was chosen to complete Michael Crichton’s unfinished novel, Micro, which was published in 2011. It is still in print and is considered a sort of cult classic about science.
Today
Today I live in New Jersey, not far from New York City, on a place where I climb trees with my children, for fun.
Largely considered to be one of the best literary works about astronomers, “First Light” was excerpted in The New Yorker and won the 1988 American Institute of Physics award in science writing. I do my writing in a small office at our place, and enjoy life with my wife, Michelle Parham Preston, who is working on a book that I think will fascinate readers when it’s published.
Preston’s next book was American Steel (1991), a non-fiction work about the building of an Indiana steel mill, which was also excerpted in The New Yorker. Through her various ...