Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton, , (born October 23, 1942) is an American author, film producer, film director, medical doctor and television producer best known for his techno-thriller novels, film and television program. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide. His works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois, to John Henderson Crichton and Zula Miller Crichton, and raised in Roslyn, Long Island, New York. Crichton has two sisters, Kimberly and Catherine, and a younger brother, Douglas. He attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as an undergraduate, graduating summa cum laude in 1964. Crichton was also initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He went on to become the Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellow from 1964 to 1965 and Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at... full article at wikipedia