Richard Preston is a bestselling author of nine books, including The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees, whose works reveal hidden worlds of nature and wonder. His books have been published in more than 35 languages. Preston is a contributor to the “New Yorker”; all of his nonfiction books have first begun as articles in The New Yorker.
Preston has won a number of awards, including the National Magazine Award and the American Institute of Physics science-writing award, and he’s the only non-physician to receive the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s Champion of Prevention award. An asteroid has been named for him. (Preston is a ball of rock 5 kilometers in diameter that could some day slam into the Earth or Mars.) At present he is the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton University. He lives near Princeton with his wife Michelle; they have three children.
Richard Preston is currently writing a sequel to The Hot Zone