Lincoln Child

Lincoln Child (born 1957) is an American author of multiple techno-thriller and horror novels. Though he is most well known for his collaborations with Douglas Preston (including the Agent Pendergast series and the Gideon Crew series, among others), he has also written five solo novels, including the Jeremy Logan series. Many of the collaborative novels have become bestsellers, and their first novel together, Relic, was adapted into a feature film. Child and Preston's books are notable for their thorough research.

Life and career

Born in Westport, Connecticut, but now a New Jersey resident, Child graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a major in English.

Soon afterward, in 1979, he secured a job as an editorial assistant at St. Martin's Press. By 1984, Child had become full editor. While in this position, he edited hundreds of books, most titles being American and English fiction.

In 1987, after founding the company's mass-market horror division, Child left the St. Martin's Press to become a Systems Analyst at MetLife. Child's first novel (co-written with Preston), Relic, was published in 1995. He left the company a few years later to write full-time.

In 2002, Child began his solo career with the debut novel Utopia, then wrote Death Match in 2004. These two novels were stand-alone works that introduced a new set of characters each time. However, with Deep Storm in 2007, Child introduced the character of Dr. Jeremy Logan, a Yale professor of medieval history and enigmalogist, whose role over the course of the series gradually increases with each book. He appeared in only one chapter in Deep Storm, then became a supporting character in Terminal Freeze (2009), before finally becoming the main protagonist in The Third Gate (2012). Utopia, Deep Storm, and Terminal Freeze all went on to become New York Times best sellers.

Child is now a resident of Morristown, New Jersey.^[1]

Solo works

Stand-alone novels

• Utopia (2002)
• Death Match (2004)

Jeremy Logan series

• Deep Storm (2007)
• Terminal Freeze (2009)
• The Third Gate (2012)
• The Forgotten Room (2015)^[2]

Collaborations with Douglas Preston

Agent Pendergast series

• Relic (1995)
• Reliquary (1997)
• The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
• Still Life with Crows (2003)
• Diogenes Trilogy
  • Brimstone (2004)
  • Dance of Death (2005)
  • The Book of the Dead (2006)
• The Wheel of Darkness (2007)
• Cemetery Dance (2009)
• Helen Trilogy
  • Fever Dream (2010)
  • Cold Vengeance (2011)
  • Two Graves (2012)
• White Fire (2013)
• Blue Labyrinth (2014)
• Crimson Shore (2015)
• The Obsidian Chamber (2016)

Gideon Crew series

• Gideon's Sword (2011)^[3]
• Gideon's Corpse (2012)
• The Lost Island (2014)^[4]
• Beyond the Ice Limit (2016)

Other

• Mount Dragon (1996)
• Riptide (1998)
• Thunderhead (1999)
• The Ice Limit (2000)

Short Stories

• "Gone Fishing" from Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night (2006)
• "Extraction" [eBook] (2012)
• "Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast" [eBook] (2014) ^[5]

See also

• Aloysius Pendergast, main fictional character in one series of books
• Vincent D'Agosta, another character from Child's novels

References

External links

• The Official Douglas Preston – Lincoln Child Web Site
• Lincoln Child Website
• Lincoln Child at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database