Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film director (1942-2008) · United States · Writers · Died at 66
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Something wrong?John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres.
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Crichton used the pen-name "Jeffrey Hudson", a reference to a 17th-century court dwarf and his own "abnormal" height.
Crichton reviewed Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) in The New Republic.
Crichton's first published book of non-fiction, Five Patients, recounts his experiences of practices in the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital and the issues of costs and politics within American health care.
Crichton's 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead featured relict Neanderthals as antagonists.
Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, and its sequels, were made into films that became a major part of popular culture, with related parks established in places as far afield as Kletno, Poland.
A mosquito preserved in amber. A specimen of this sort was the source of dinosaur DNA in Jurassic Park.
A simple BASIC program. Crichton was an early proponent of programming and computers, predicting their ubiquity.On YouTube
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John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. Crichton's novels often explore human technological advancement and attempted dominance over nature, both with frequently catastrophic results; many of his works are cautionary tales, especially regarding themes of biotechnology. Several of his stories center on themes of genetic modification, hybridization, paleontology and/or zoology. Many feature medical or scientific underpinnings, reflective of his own medical background.
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