Douglas Preston is the author of forty books, almost all of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He is the creator, along with Lincoln Child, of a beloved series of thrillers starring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, described by Publishers Weekly as “a ruthless descendant of [Sherlock] Holmes.” A former editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Preston draws on his fascination with weird science to inform both his fiction and nonfiction. The Lost City of the Monkey God, about the search for a lost civilization in Honduras, was a #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Another strange-but-true tale, The Monster of Florence, tells the remarkable story of an Italian serial killer. Preston spearheaded and contributed to the 2024 collaborative novel Fourteen Days, written by Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow, and others. He is also president emeritus of The Authors Guild, America’s oldest and largest professional organization for writers, which is a Created by Humans partner.