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Michael Crichton (1942 - )
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John Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois to John Henderson Crichton and Zula Miller Crichton, and raised in Roslyn, Long Island, New York.[1]
He was educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.B. (summa cum laude) 1964 (Phi Beta Kappa). He went on to become the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellow, 1964-65 and Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University, England, 1965. He graduated Harvard Medical School, gaining an M.D. 1969 and did post-doctoral fellowship study at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California 1969-1970. In 1988, he was Visiting Writer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A strong credit to Crichton's entertainment work is that he is the only person to have had the number one movie, the number one book, and the number one television show in the United States at the same time.
Crichton has admitted to once, during his undergraduate study, plagiarizing a work by George Orwell and submitting it as his own. The paper was received by his professor with a mark of "B−". Crichton has stated that the plagiarism was not intended to defraud the school, but rather as an experiment. Crichton believed that the professor in question had been intentionally giving him abnormally low marks, and so as an experiment Crichton informed another professor of his idea and submitted Orwell's paper as his own. Crichton admitted to plagiarizing when he was on the stand in the course of a lawsuit trying to defend the authenticity of Twister, a movie which one individual claimed was based on his story entitled "Catch the Wind".
While in medical school, he wrote novels under the pen names John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson (under which pseudonym A Case of Need won the 1969 Edgar Award). He also co-authored Dealing with his younger brother Douglas Crichton under a shared pen name Michael Douglas. The back cover of that book contains a picture of Michael and Douglas at a very young age taken by their mother.
His two pen names were both created to reflect his above-average height. According to his own words, he was about 206 cm (6' 9") tall in 1997 (see [1]). Lange means tall one in Dutch, and Sir Jeffrey Hudson was a famous seventeenth century dwarf in Queen Henrietta Maria's court.
Crichton has two sisters, Kimberly and Catherine, and a brother, Douglas.
He is married to Sherri Alexander and has a daughter, Taylor, with ex-wife, Anne-Marie Martin.
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton
username October 11th, 2008 02:42 PM PST