# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-preston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:43:26.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-preston"
name: "Douglas Preston"
slug: "douglas-preston"
description: "Douglas Jerome Preston is an American journalist and author. Although he is best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child, he has also written six solo novels, including the Wyman Ford series and a novel titled Jennie, which was made into a movie by Disney called The Jennie Project. Preston has authored a half-dozen nonfiction books on science and exploration and writes occasionally for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and other magazines."
tagline: "American journalist and author (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_preston_1018606.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.prestonchild.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump