American author English project

1. Amazing American Author and Creativity Extraordinaire Michael Crichton

2. Best known as the author of Jurassic Park Creator of the ER Wait…who?

3. Jurassic Park

4. Born October 23, 1942 in Chicago Died November 4, 2008 of cancer (Age 66) in Los Angeles. Lifetime

5. He graduated Suma Cum Laude from Harvard and got his MD from Harvard Medical School Taught Anthropology at Cambridge and taught Writing at MIT Smarty Pants

6. Technical Science Fiction The story drives his characters Focuses on cutting edge science that most readers understand Most of his books are adventures or thrillers Literary style

7. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at #1 in television, film, and book sales. Number one!

8. Michael Crichton published 25 novels in his lifetime between 1966 and 2008 An additional book, Pirates Latitude, was published posthumously (after he died) after an assistant discovered the completed novel on his computer. Another book that will be published posthumously is in the works. The publisher is currently looking for a co-author to finish the nearly complete book. The title has yet to be released, but what is known is that the book is a techno-thriller. Published books

10. Crichton published his first book, ‘Odds On’, in 1966. It describes an attempt of robbery in an isolated hotel on Costa Brava. The robbery is planned with the help of a Critical Path Analysis computer program, but unforeseen events get in the way. Crichton publishes a lot of his early works under the pen names of John Lange, Jeffery Hudson, and Michael Douglas Odds On

11. The Andromeda Strain is the 6th book that Crichton published First book he published under his real name In 1971, this novel was adapted into a movie This book was later adapted into a TV miniseries in 2008. It was AWESOME The Andromeda Strain

12. The Andromeda Strain (trailer)

13. Book number 17 for Michael Crichton is Jurassic Park. This book sparked a revolution in the way people thought of dinosaurs This movement was even further accentuated by the movie that was made after the book, which grossed over $900 million Jurassic Park

14. The sequel to Jurassic Park and Crichton's 20th book He wasn’t originally going to make a sequel until he was urged by Stephen Spielberg, the director of the first movie and later the second movie. The Lost World

15. Prey is his 23rd book and my personal favorite Based on a nano-robotic threat to human-kind The novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology. Prey

16. Influence on Pop-Culture