Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) is an American author of primarily science fiction and thriller novels.
== Biography ==
John Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 23, 1942. Raised in Long Island, John showed an interest in writing at a young age and at age 14 he had his first published work, an article about his trip to Sunset Crater printed in the New York Times. Crichton entered Harvard College in 1960 with intentions of becoming a writer but differences between him and the faculty (he believed his was given unfairly low marks) resulted in him dropping his English major. He obtained a bachelor's degree in biological anthropology summa cum laude in 1964, was initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society and in 1964 to 1965 received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship.
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