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Richard Preston
Author · 16 books
Richard Preston, born in 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studied natural sciences and earned a doctorate from Princeton University. He worked as a science writer and published several nonfiction books, including The Hot Zone, about the Ebola virus, Cobra, about a bioweapons researcher, and First Light. His work received several awards, including the National Magazine Award and the American Institute of Physics Award, which he received for First Light.