Lincoln Child

Lincoln Child is an American novelist and former editor, best known for the Agent Pendergast thrillers he writes with Douglas Preston.

Born in Westport, Connecticut, he graduated from Carleton College with a degree in English and worked at St. Martin's Press, rising to editor and helping found its mass-market horror line, before leaving in 1987 for a systems analyst job at MetLife.

Relic, his first novel with Preston, appeared in 1995 and was adapted into a feature film; he turned to full-time writing a few years later. With Preston he also writes the Gideon Crew and Nora Kelly series. His solo novels began with Utopia (2002) and include the Jeremy Logan series, which opens with Deep Storm.