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John Michael Crichton
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23 October 1942 - 4 November 2008
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American writer, “father of technothriller” Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942 in Chicago. After high school he studied at the prestigious Harvard University at the Faculty of Philology. After graduating from university, Michael decides to change his field of interest and successfully pursues anthropology in Cambridge. Another craze of Crichton became medicine, in 1969 he defended his thesis at Harvard Medical School and finally became a professional writer. Crichton's first works were
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American writer, “father of technothriller” Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942 in Chicago. After high school he studied at the prestigious Harvard University at the Faculty of Philology. After graduating from university, Michael decides to change his field of interest and successfully pursues anthropology in Cambridge. Another craze of Crichton became medicine, in 1969 he defended his thesis at Harvard Medical School and finally became a professional writer.
Crichton's first works were police novels, which he began writing to pay for his tuition. One of these novels, titled If Necessary, won the prestigious Edgar Detective Writers Award in 1968. The author’s first fantastic novel is the book “Selective Remedy” (1968), which is a classic of a fantastic detective. All of these were novels signed by various pseudonyms, but Crichton’s success was brought by a book signed by his own name, titled The Andromeda Stamp (1969), which was filmed in 1971.
After a passion for writing, Michael Crichton switches to a career as a screenwriter and director. His fifth film, Western World, had some audience success.
Crichton gained popularity around the world in 1993, when two of his old novels Jurassic Park (1990) and Rising Sun (1991) were filmed one after another. In the wake of this success, Crichton was recognized as the most popular writer in the United States.
According to Michael’s script, the incredibly popular series Ambulance was created, which received 14 Emmy Awards.
In the late 90s, Michael Crichton founded a company producing computer games based on the plots of his novels. He is an expert in computers and information technology and the author of Electronic Life: How Computers Think (1983).