John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker.
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. ==Life== ===Early life=== John Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, to John Henderson Crichton, a journalist, and Zula Miller Crichton, a homemaker.
We studied our butts off, and we got a tremendously good education there." Crichton had always planned on becoming a writer and began his studies at Harvard College in 1960.
He obtained his bachelor's degree in biological anthropology summa cum laude in 1964 and was initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
He received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship from 1964 to 1965 and was a visiting lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965.
He received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship from 1964 to 1965 and was a visiting lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965.
This isn't unusual since everyone hates medical school – even happy, practicing physicians." ===Pseudonymous novels (1965–1968)=== In 1965, while at Harvard Medical School, Crichton wrote a novel, Odds On.
Doubleday passed it on to New American Library, which published it in 1966.
from Harvard Medical School in 1969 but did not practice medicine, choosing to focus on his writing instead.
Film rights were sold in 1969, but no movie resulted. The second Lange novel, Scratch One (1967), relates the story of Roger Carr, a handsome, charming, privileged man who practices law, more as a means to support his playboy lifestyle than a career.
In 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, the first film to utilize 2D computer-generated imagery.
John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker.
Several novels, in various states of completion, were published after his death in 2008. Crichton was also involved in the film and television industry.
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