26 works in English-language magazines
| Date | Page | Type | Title | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1988 | 47 | Essay | Letters Home | Omni, August 1988 |
| October 1988 | 26 | Essay | Explorations: Fossil Wars | Omni, October 1988 |
| January 1989 | 31 | Essay | Explorations: Potluck | Omni, January 1989 |
| April 1995 | 27 | Review | Relic | Locus, #411 April 1995 |
| July 1995 | 70 | Review | Relic | Fangoria, July 1995 |
| March 1996 | 29 | Review | Mount Dragon | Locus, #422 March 1996 |
| May 1996 | 57 | Review | Mount Dragon | Science Fiction Chronicle, #189 May/June 1996 |
| July 1997 | 31 | Review | Reliquary | Locus, #438 July 1997 |
| July 1997 | 58 | Review | Reliquary | Fangoria, July 1997 |
| September 1997 | 85 | Review | Reliquary | Dragon Magazine, September 1997 |
| October 1997 | 45 | Review | Reliquary | Science Fiction Chronicle, #193 October 1997 |
| October 1998 | 62 | Review | Riptide | Locus, #453 October 1998 |
| October 1998 | 53|53.11 | Review | Riptide | Science Fiction Chronicle, #199 Oct-November 1998 |
| December 1998 | Review | Riptide | SF Site, December 1998 | |
| April 2002 | 140 | Review | The Ice Limit | Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002 |
| August 2002 | 39 | Review | The Cabinet of Curiosities | Science Fiction Chronicle, #227 August 2002 |
| June 2004 | 101 | Review | The Codex | Cemetery Dance, #49 |
| February 2006 | 20 | Interview | From Museum to Manuscript: An Interview with Douglas Preston | The Wicked Karnival, #6 |
| January 2008 | 64 | Review | Blasphemy | Noctem Aeternus, January 2008 |
| April 2012 | 103 | Review | Fever Dream | Cemetery Dance, #66, 2012 |
| April 2012 | 105 | Review | Gideon's Sword | Cemetery Dance, #66, 2012 |
| September 2019 | 24 | Interview | Inside the List (The New York Times Book Review, September 8, 2019) | The New York Times Book Review, September 8, 2019 |
| May 2020 | 17 | Essay | Going Viral | The New York Times Book Review, May 31, 2020 |
| May 2020 | 17|17.1 | Review | The End of October | The New York Times Book Review, May 31, 2020 |
| May 2024 | 199 | Review | Extinction | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2024 |
| July 2024 | Review | Extinction | ParSec, Summer 2024 |
46 English-language books
Initially working for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA, as a writer, editor, and manager of publications (his history of the museum, "Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural History" was edited by Lincoln Child), he grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and has studied various disciplines at Pomona College in Claremont, California, USA.
Brother of Richard Preston.