# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-preston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:37:30.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-preston"
name: "Richard Preston"
slug: "richard-preston"
description: "Richard Preston 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."
tagline: "American writer and journalist (born 1954)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.8
  momentum:             3.24709784411277
  historical:           10.41045066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4628326/"
    handle:    "nm4628326"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://richardpreston.net/"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ричард Престън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Preston (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Preston"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Richard Preston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump