Author

Books by Richard Preston

Richard Preston is an American author and journalist whose work focuses on science and medicine, particularly biological threats and infectious disease. He has written for The New Yorker since the 1980s and is the author of several books including The Cobra Event, The Demon in the Freezer, and Crisis in the Red Zone. The Hot Zone won the Pen/Martha Albrand Award for nonfiction. Preston has no formal scientific training; his strength is in rendering complex biological events in accessible narrative form, which has made him one of the most widely read science journalists of his generation.