The paper was returned by his unwitting professor with a mark of 'B−'.

: 4 Informing another professor of his suspicions, Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name. During his undergraduate study in literature, he conducted an experiment to expose a professor who he believed was giving him abnormally low marks and criticizing his literary style.

We studied our butts off, and we got a tremendously good education there.' Ĭrichton had always planned on becoming a writer and began his studies at Harvard College in 1960. I rode my bike for miles and miles, to the movie on Main Street and piano lessons and the like. Looking back, it's remarkable what wasn't going on. Ĭrichton later recalled, 'Roslyn was another world. He was raised on Long Island, in Roslyn, New York, and he showed a keen interest in writing from a young age at 14, he had an article about a trip he took to Sunset Crater published in The New York Times. John Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, to John Henderson Crichton, a journalist, and Zula Miller Crichton, a homemaker. He was the creator of the television series ER (1994–2009), and several of his novels were adapted into films, most notably the Jurassic Park franchise. He also directed: Coma (1978), The First Great Train Robbery (1978), Looker (1981), and Runaway (1984). In 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, the first film to utilize 2D computer-generated imagery. Several novels, in various states of completion, were published after his death in 2008.Ĭrichton was also involved in the film and television industry.

Initially writing under a pseudonym, he eventually wrote 26 novels, including: The Andromeda Strain (1969), The Terminal Man (1972), The Great Train Robbery (1975), Congo (1980), Sphere (1987), Jurassic Park (1990), Rising Sun (1992), Disclosure (1994), The Lost World (1995), Airframe (1996), Timeline (1999), Prey (2002), State of Fear (2004), and Next (2006). from Harvard Medical School in 1969 but did not practice medicine, choosing to focus on his writing instead. Many of his novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and scientific background.Ĭrichton received an M.D. His novels often explore technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.

John Michael Crichton ( / ˈ k r aɪ t ən/ Octo– November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker.

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