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Richard Preston was born on 5 August, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American writer and author. Discover Richard Preston's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Non-fiction writer, journalist
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 5 August, 1954
Birthday 5 August
Birthplace Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1954

Richard Preston (born August 5, 1954) is a writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author who has written books about infectious disease, bioterrorism, redwoods and other subjects, as well as fiction.

Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1972

He graduated Wellesley High School in Massachusetts in 1972 and attended Pomona College in Claremont, California.

1983

He earned a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University in 1983.

1992

His 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone" was expanded into his breakout book, The Hot Zone (1994).

It is classified as a "non-fiction thriller" about ebolaviruses.

He learned of Ebola through such contacts as U.S. Army researchers Drs.

C.J. Peters and Nancy Jaax.

His fascination began during a visit to Africa where he was an eyewitness to epidemics.

1995

The book served as the (very loose) basis of the Hollywood movie Outbreak (1995) about military machinations surrounding a fictional "Motaba virus".

1998

Preston's novel The Cobra Event (1998), about a terrorism release of a fictional virus combining various qualities of different diseases upon New York City, alarmed even then-President Bill Clinton who, shortly after reading it, instigated a review of bio-terror threats to the U.S. The book strove to tell a fast-paced thriller narrative within the bounds of well-researched bio-terrorism possibility, and was reportedly pressed upon Clinton by a molecular biologist when he was attending a Renaissance Weekend event.

2001

The narrative continues with anthrax, a bacterial disease of cattle and humans, used in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

First Light and American Steel are non-fiction books addressing astrophysics and the steel industry.

First Light centers around the history of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain, and the astronomers who work there.

American Steel chronicles the history of the Nucor steel company, and focuses on its newest steel plant in Indiana, whose success depends on a new steel-sheet making machine engineered in West Germany.

2002

The Demon in the Freezer (2002) covers the story of the eradication of smallpox, perhaps the most destructive virus to have plagued mankind.

It details the survival of the virus in research labs and bio-weapon programs of Russia and other nations, despite its eradication in the human population.

2007

Preston's personal hobby of recreational tree climbing is introduced in The Wild Trees (2007).

His climbing experience likely led him to write about the largest known redwoods like Lost Monarch in the Grove of Titans, or Iluvatar, described in that book along with delicate forest canopy ecosystems.

Preston's Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science is a collection of essays related to his experiences researching his previous books.

2009

In November 2009, Preston was selected by Harper-Collins and the Michael Crichton estate to complete his unfinished novel Micro after Crichton's death in November 2008.

2011

The book was released on November 22, 2011.

Approximately a third of Micro was completed by Crichton.

Preston completed the book according to the author's remaining outline, notes, and research.

2016

In 2016, Preston served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program where he judged the prestigious Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction.

Preston resides in Hopewell, New Jersey with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters and one son.

He is also the brother of best-selling author Douglas Preston.

Minor planet 3792 Preston is named in his honor.