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John Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, United States to John Henderson Crichton, a journalist, and Zula Miller Crichton. He was raised on Long Island.
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John Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, United States to John Henderson Crichton, a journalist, and Zula Miller Crichton. He was raised on Long Island.
In 1964 he earned a B. A. in anthropology from Harvard University. Returning to Harvard University in 1965, Crichton entered medical school, where he began to write novels under the pseudonym John Lange in order to support his medical studies. While doing postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, Crichton published The Andromeda Strain (1969), a technological thriller, which garnered literary acclaim and national prominence for the author.
Upon leaving medical studies, Crichton began a full-time writing career. Eventually, he also directed his screenplay of his novel Westworld (1973), starring Yul Brynner, and wrote the screenplay for his book, The Great Train Robbery (1978). Crichton's stories generally take place in contemporary settings and focus on technological themes, although his earliest works were traditional mystery novels.
Writing under the pseudonym John Lange, Crichton published a mystery novel entitled Odds On (1966), followed by A Case of Need (1968), written under the pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson. A Case of Need received favorable reviews and the 1968 Edgar Allan Poe Award of Mystery Writers of America. In 1969, Crichton published The Andromeda Strain, a novel that, Crichton acknowledges, was influenced by Len Deighton's The Ipcress File (1962) and H. G. WellsThe War of The Worlds.
In Westworld (1973), Crichton depicts the ability of technology to blur the line between reality and fantasy, and how that can affect people's lives. While The Great Train Robbery (1975) recalls the history of an actual train robbery in Victorian England, and Eaters of the Dead (1976) is set among tenth-century Vikings, and is supposedly the retelling of the Beowulf myth, Congo (1980) returns to the dangers of technology, greed, and power. An encounter with alein life forms and alien technology is the central focus of Crichton's next novel, Sphere (1987).
In 1990, Crichton published his nationally acclaimed best-seller, Jurassic Park, which recounts the classic tale of greed and a technological experiment gone awry. Disclosure (1994) continues to focus on the technological business community and its handling of sexual harassment. In 1995, Crichton returned to the theme of genetic engineering in The Lost World.
In 1999, Crichton founded Timeline Computer Entertainment with David Smith. Despite signing a multi-title publishing deal with Eidos Interactive, only one game was ever published, Timeline.
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He was a deist.
Quotations: As for critical reaction to his work, Crichton tells Smith: "Every critic assumes he's a code-breaker; the writer makes a code and the critic breaks it. And it doesn't work that way at all. As a mode of working, you need to become very uncritical. "
As an adolescent Crichton felt isolated because of his height (6 ft 9 in, or 206 cm). During the 1970s and 1980s, he consulted psychics and enlightenment gurus to make him feel more socially acceptable and to improve his karma. As a result of these experiences, Crichton practiced meditation throughout much of his life.
Crichton was a workaholic.
He experimented with astral projection, aura viewing, and clairvoyance, coming to believe that these included real phenomena that scientists had too eagerly dismissed as paranormal.
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Summing up Crichton's appeal in the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, Robert L. Sims writes: "His importance lies in his capacity to tell stories related to that frontier where science and fiction meet. .. . Crichton's best novels demonstrate that, for the immediate future at least, technological innovations offer the same possibilities and limitations as their human creators. "
John R. Coyne of the National Review finds: "Crichton proves himself capable of making the most esoteric material completely comprehensible to the layman. .. . Even more important, he can create and sustain that sort of suspense that forces us to suspend disbelief. "
He married five times. Four of the marriages ended in divorce: with Joan Radam (1965–1970), Kathleen St. Johns (1978–1980), Suzanna Childs (1981–1983), and actress Anne-Marie Martin (1987–2003), the mother of his daughter Taylor Anne (born 1989). At the time of his death, Crichton was married to Sherri Alexander (2005–2008), who was six months pregnant with their son: John Michael Todd Crichton was born on February 12, 2009.