Richard Preston
Books and Stories

Richard Preston (b. 1954) writes for the New Yorker and writes extensively about infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism. He received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. Select a novel or story title to see the inventions from that work:

The Cobra Event, Random House, 1997

 

 

 

 

 

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