Congratulations to bestselling author Douglas Preston. According to a recent announcement in Variety, Tom Cruise and United Artists have acquired rights to Preston's serial-killer thriller The Monster of Florence. "It's the biggest movie deal in my life," said Preston. His previous thriller Relic was also made into a major motion picture.The Monster of Florence case on which Preston based his book had previously inspired the Thomas Harris sequel Hannibal.
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Douglas Preston began his writing career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He has published 21 books, both fiction and nonfiction, many co-authored with Lincoln Child. He occasionally writes pieces for The New Yorker magazine and the Atlantic Monthly. He is a founding sponsor of ITW and a board member of the Authors Guild. 
