WRITER

Douglas Preston

1956 - Today

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Douglas Jerome Preston (born May 31, 1956) is an American journalist and author. Although he is best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child (including the Agent Pendergast series and Gideon Crew series), he has also written six solo novels, including the Wyman Ford series and a novel entitled Jennie, which was made into a movie by Disney. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Preston has received more than 699,556 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Douglas Preston is the 3,287th most popular writer (down from 2,968th in 2019), the 4,176th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,880th in 2019) and the 353rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Douglas Preston ranks 3,287 out of 7,302. Before him are Mahmoud Shabestari, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Licinius Macer Calvus, Juan Fernández de Heredia, Lucius Cornelius Sisenna, and Dámaso Alonso. After him are Eugène Burnouf, Malak Hifni Nasif, Bernard Maris, Idries Shah, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, and Ashapurna Devi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Douglas Preston ranks 162. Before him are Herbert Grönemeyer, Christiana Figueres, Hou Yu-ih, Azmi Bishara, Franz Tost, and Anil Kapoor. After him are Nikolai Noskov, Jordan Rudess, Laura Morante, Park Won-soon, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, and Catherine Colonna.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas Preston ranks 4,176 out of 20,380. Before him are James Marsden (1973), George Andrew Reisner (1867), Kellyanne Conway (1967), Rob Marshall (1960), Stan Winston (1946), and Moses Gunn (1929). After him are Maxwell Perkins (1884), Marc Mitscher (1887), Mike Porcaro (1955), Stanley Clarke (1951), Don Adams (1923), and Joe Walsh (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Douglas Preston ranks 353. Before him are Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Mickey Spillane (1918), Edward Bellamy (1850), Gregory Benford (1941), Willa Cather (1873), and Wallace Stevens (1879). After him are Robert McKee (1941), Morgan Robertson (1861), Rose Wilder Lane (1886), Fanny Crosby (1820), Spencer Johnson (1938), and David Eddings (1931).

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