Lincoln Child

Lincoln Child

Lincoln Child is an American author of thrillers and horror novels. He is most well known for his writing partnership with Douglas Preston. Preston and Child write the popular Agent Pendergast series, the Nora Kelly series, and the Gideon Crew series, among others. Lincoln has also written nearly a dozen novels of his own, including the Jeremy Logan techno-thriller series.

Lincoln was born in Westport, Connecticut, and graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a major in English. He began working as an editorial assistant at St. Martin’s Press in 1979 and, within a few years, was a full editor. He initiated the company’s mass-market horror division. One of the books he commissioned was a non-fiction book on the history of the American Museum of Natural History. He offered the project to Douglas Preston, who was working at the museum as an editor, writer, and manager of publications. The book was published in 1986, and the two became friends.

Lincoln left the St. Martin’s Press to become a systems analyst at MetLife in 1987. Lincoln’s website describes, “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.”

Meanwhile, Lincoln and Douglas stayed in touch, and the two decided to write a mystery thriller together. Relic, the first Agent Pendergast book, was published in 1995. A few years later, Lincoln left MetLife to write full-time. Preston and Child have collaborated on over 36 bestselling books.

Lincoln currently lives in Sarasota, Florida.

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Recommended by Lauren Jennings

The Dr. Jeremy Logan books are entertaining, like Indiana Jones meets the X-Files. Logan is like a g

Recommended by Kristen Russell

Aloysius Pendergast is a fascinating detective, one of my favourites. It’s hard to describe him, but

Recommended by Leah Gutierrez

Lincoln Child’s solo books are more science fiction than mystery but he has some intriguing ideas. T

Recommended by Laurel Ortiz

I really like Preston & Child’s Pendergast. The books are very well written and exciting. So definit

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Lincoln Child has been writing for decades with his frequent collaborator Douglas Preston. The two bestselling authors are known for their Agent Pendergast mystery thrillers. When not working together, Lincoln writes his own mystery thrillers. But the writing hasn’t gotten easier. “For me, writing never gets easier. It’s always hard work. It doesn’t matter how many words you wrote the day before or how many novels you’ve completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.” What he does focus on is authenticity. “I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.”

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