Crichton's works often centered on science-fiction, such as the best-selling Jurassic Park, which was later made into a blockbuster movie. Michael Crichton also created the long-running NBC medical drama, ER.
A Harvard graduate who taught courses in Anthropology at Cambridge and on writing at MIT, Crichton's first work, The Andromeda Strain, was published while he was still a medical student. His works have been translated into 36 languages and 13 have been made into movies.
Crichton won an Emmy, a Peabody, and the Writer's Guild of America Award for his work on ER. He also had a newly-discovered dinosaur named after him (Crichtonsaurus bohlini).
© C Harris Lynn, 2008
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