About the Author: Douglas Preston is the co-author with Lincoln Child of the Pendergast series of novels, including such celebrated titles as The Book of the Dead and The Wheel of Darkness, as well as The Relic, which became a number one box office hit movie. His solo novels include Jennie, made into a movie by Disney, and Tyrannosaur Canyon. Preston is an expert long-distance horseman and a member of the elite Long Riders Guild. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a traveler to remote parts of the world as an archaeological correspondent for the New Yorker magazine. He divides his time between Maine and New Mexico.

Lincoln Child: In 1987, Lincoln left trade publishing to work at MetLife. In a rather sudden transition, he went from editing manuscripts, speaking at sales conferences, and wining/dining agents to doing highly technical programming and systems analysis. Though the switch might seem bizarre, Lincoln was a propeller-head from a very early age, and his extensive programming experience dates back to high school, when he worked with DEC minis and the now-prehistoric IBM 1620, so antique it actually had an electric typewriter mounted into its front panel. Away from the world of publishing, Lincoln's own nascent interests in writing returned. While at MetLife, Relic was published, and within a few years Lincoln had left the company to write full time. He now lives in New Jersey (under protest--just kidding) with his wife and daughter.

A dilettante by natural inclination, Lincoln's interests include: pre-1950s literature and poetry; post-1950s popular fiction; playing the piano, various MIDI instruments, and the 5-string banjo; English and American history; motorcycles; architecture; classical music, early jazz, blues, and R&B; exotic parrots; esoteric programming languages; mountain hiking; bow ties; Italian suits; fedoras; archaeology; and multiplayer deathmatching.

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