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After graduating from the Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton embarked on a career as a writer and filmmaker. Called "the father of the techno-thriller," his novels include The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park , and Timeline. He has also written four books of non-fiction, including Five Patients, Travels, and Jasper Johns . His books have been translated into thirty languages. Twelve have been made into films, including Jurassic Park and most recently, Timeline, now filming. He is also the creator of the television series ER. Crichton has directed six films, among them Westworld, Coma, and The Great Train Robbery. Always interested in computers, he ran a software company, FilmTrack, which developed computer programs for motion picture production in the 1980s; for this pioneering work he won an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award in 1995. His film Westworld was first feature film to employ computer-generated special effects. Crichton has won an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Writer's Guild of America award for ER. In 2000, a newly-discovered, small armored dinosaur was named for him: Bienosaurus crichtoni. Crichton was named one of the "Fifty Most Beautiful People" by People magazine in 1992, but, he observes, never again. He is divorced and lives in Los Angeles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
CRICHTON, (John) Michael. American. Born in Chicago, Illinois, October 23, 1942. Educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B. (summa cum laude) 1964 (Phi Beta Kappa). Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellow, 1964-65. Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University, England, 1965. Graduated Harvard Medical School, M.D. 1969; post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California 1969-1970. Visiting Writer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. Awards: Recipient of Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award, 1968 ("A Case of Need", written under pseudonym Jeffery Hudson); and 1980 ("The Great Train Robbery"). Association of American Medical Writers Award, 1970 ("Five Patients"); Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award, 1995 ("for pioneering computerized motion picture budgeting and scheduling"); George Foster Peabody Award (for "ER"); Writer's Guild of America Award, Best Long Form Television Script of 1995 (for "ER") Emmy, Best Dramatic Series, 1996 (for "ER"). Ankylosaur named Bienosaurus crichtoni, 2000. Associations: Member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Author's Guild, Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, P.E.N. America Center, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa. Board of Directors, International Design Conference at Aspen, 1985-91; Board of Trustees, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, La Jolla, 1986-91. Board of Overseers, Harvard University, 1990-96. Author's Guild Council, 1995- References: Contemporary Authors, 1971; Who's Who in America, 1974-; Current Biography, April 1976; Film Encyclopedia, 1979; International Motion Picture Almanac, 1996; International Television & Video Almanac, 1996. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
NOVELS The Andromeda Strain - 1969 The Terminal Man - 1972 The Great Train Robbery - 1975 Eaters of the Dead - 1976 Congo - 1980 Sphere - 1987 Jurassic Park - 1990 Rising Sun - 1992 Disclosure - 1993 The Lost World - 1995 Airframe - 1996 Timeline - 1999 NON-FICTION Five Patients - 1970 Jasper Johns - 1977 Electronic Life - 1983 Travels - 1988 Jasper Johns (revised edition) - 1996 NOVELS - WRITTEN UNDER PSUEDONYMS As John Lange: Odds On - 1966 Scratch One - 1967 Easy Go - 1968 The Venom Business - 1969 Zero Cool -1969 Grave Descend - 1970 Drug of Choice - 1970 Binary - 1972 As Jeffery Hudson: A Case of Need - 1968, reissued in 1993 As Michael Douglas: Dealing (or the "Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues") - 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
MOVIES The Andromeda Strain - 1971 Westworld - 1973 - Writer/Director Terminal Man - 1974 Coma - 1977 - Writer/Director The Great Train Robbery - 1978 - Writer/Director Looker - 1981 - Writer/Director Runaway - 1984 - Writer/Director Rising Sun - 1993 - Co-writer Jurassic Park - 1993 - Co-writer Disclosure - 1995 - Co-producer Congo - 1995 Twister - 1996 - Co-writer/Co-producer The Lost World - 1997 Sphere - 1997 - Co-producer Thirteenth Warrior - 1999 - Co-producer TELEVISION ER - 1994-Continuing - Creator, Co-exec. producer OTHER MOVIES The Carey Treatment (from "Case of Need") - 1972 Pursuit (from "Binary") - 1972 - Director Dealing: Or The Berkeley to Boston Forty-Brick Lost Bag Blues - 1972 COMPUTER GAMES Amazon - 1982 TIMELINE - Eidos - 2000 |