Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton [ kɹaɪtn̩ ] ( born October 23, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, † November 4, 2008 in Los Angeles ) was an American author, screenwriter and director.
- 3.2.1 director
- 3.2.2 screenplay
- 3.2.3 producer
Life and work
Michael Crichton was the first of four children of journalist John Henderson Crichton and Zula Miller Crichton his wife. He grew up in Roslyn on Long Iceland and had two sisters, Kimberly and Catherine, and a younger brother, Douglas.
He studied at Harvard College ( degree, Bachelor of Arts BA, 1964) and at Harvard Medical School ( MD degree, Doctor of Medicine, 1969). Subsequently, he worked as a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. In 1988 he was a guest lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Crichton began to publish first novels as a student under the pseudonym John Lange. Another pseudonym Jeffery Hudson - an allusion to his height of 2.06 meters. He has written 26 novels and 11 screenplays. Many of his books have been as blockbuster films, most notably Jurassic Park, in which he also wrote the screenplay. As a director, he has turned himself little with Westworld, Coma and Runaway classic of the genre.
1990 Warner Bros. acquired on behalf of Steven Spielberg the rights to a screenplay, had processed 1974 experience from his medical practice in the Crichton. It was as Emergency Room - The emergency room one of the most successful television series ever.
In 1999 he founded the computer game development studio timeline studios to realize his own game ideas. Due to lack of success of the single published play, the Adventures timeline ( an implementation of its eponymous novel ), the company has already been closed again in 2001.
2002, a newly discovered dinosaur species in China was named in honor Crichton Crichtonsaurus. This was justified by the popularity that have attained the Dinosaur by Crichton's novel Jurassic Park and the respective movies.
2004 came his controversial novel world into fear. It's about eco-terrorists who, in order to keep the world in fear of climate change, want to trigger an artificial earthquake. The novel criticizes the ideological view of the author science. Crichton held the theses of global climate change for wrong or if it ever give a warming, then she was part of a natural cycle as the Earth Warm since the last ice age. Environmentalists accused him of misunderstanding of facts and misinformation and the denial of the anthropogenic causes of global warming. The relevance of the topic through which ereignende shortly after publication of the novel tsunami in South Asia contributed to attention. Although a work of fiction, was awarded to him by the oil industry-related " American Association of petroleum Geologists " a journalism prize.
Crichton was married five times, divorced four times and has a daughter. One of his wives was Anne -Marie Martin.
The author died on November 4, 2008 at the age of 66 years in Los Angeles from cancer ( cancer of the larynx ).