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Popular As | Richard Preston |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | 69 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Leo |
Born | August 5, 1954 (Massachusetts) |
Birthday | August 5 |
Town/City | Massachusetts |
Nationality | Massachusetts |
Richard Preston’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Richard Preston was born in the Year of the Horse. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Horse love to roam free. They’re energetic, self-reliant, money-wise, and they enjoy traveling, love and intimacy. They’re great at seducing, sharp-witted, impatient and sometimes seen as a drifter. Compatible with Dog or Tiger.
Famous for his bestselling thriller The Hot Zone, as well as for his 2002 work The Demon in the Freezer, this fiction and nonfiction author also worked as a journalist for the New Yorker.
He and his brother, fellow top-selling writer Douglas Preston, grew up near Boston, Massachusetts. The brothers both graduated from Pomona College in Southern California.
He published his debut nonfiction work, First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe, in the late 1980s. His first novel, The Cobra Event, followed a decade later.
He and his wife, Michelle, settled in New Jersey with their three children.
In 2011, Preston finished writing Micro, a novel that author Michael Crichton had been working on at the time of his death.