Lincoln Child
Lincoln Child | |
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| Born | October 13, 1957 Adventure |
| Notable works | Agent Pendergast series, Jeremy Logan series, Gideon Crew series |
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Lincoln Child (born October 13, 1957) is an American author of
Life and career
Born in Westport, Connecticut, but now a Florida 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
Child is now a resident of Sarasota, Florida.[1]
Bibliography
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]
- Full Wolf Moon (2017)
- Chrysalis (2022)
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)
- City of Endless Night (2018)
- Verses for the Dead (2018)
- Crooked River (2020)
- Bloodless (2021)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (2023)
- Angel of Vengeance (2024)
Gideon Crew series
- Gideon's Sword (2011)[3]
- Gideon's Corpse (2012)
- The Lost Island (2014)[4]
- Beyond the Ice Limit (2016)
- The Pharaoh Key (2018)[5]
Nora Kelly series
- Old Bones (2019)
- " Storm" (2020)
- The Scorpion's Tail (2021)
- Diablo Mesa (2022)
- Dead Mountain (2023)
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)[6]
See also
- Vincent D'Agosta, another character from Child's novels
References
- The Record (Bergen County), 28 January 1997. Accessed 5 December 2007. "When Lincoln Child was just a lad, his mother handed him a big black notebook. First, he doodled in the front. Then, the Morristown novelist recalls, 'I turned to the back, and I drew something so frightening I could never look at it again.'"
- ^ results, search (12 May 2015). "The Forgotten Room: A Novel". Doubleday. Retrieved 20 April 2018 – via Amazon.
- ^ "Grand Central in New Deal with Preston/Child". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. 1 February 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ^ "The Lost Island". hachettebookgroup.com. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- ISBN 9781455525805.
- ^ Noble, Barnes &. "Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
External links
- The Official Douglas Preston – Lincoln Child Web Site
- Lincoln Child Website
- Lincoln Child at IMDb
- Lincoln Child at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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