
Douglas Preston worked for the American Museum of Natural History in New York as managing editor of Curator magazine. He has written non-fiction books, novels, and contributes articles for the New Yorker, Harper's and National Geographic, and has a TV miniseries currently in production for ABC (US). He lives in Santa Fe with his wife and three daughters.
Lincoln Child is a former editor at St Martin's Press (working on fiction and non-fiction), and has been writing full-time since the mid-1990s. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter.