Michael Crichton

On November 4, 2008, Michael Crichton died of cancer at the age of 66. With a most heterogeneous professional career, Crichton found success as a writer and as a screenwriter. He has sold millions of copies of his books and has been lauded for his popular television creation,  ER . His concerns also led him to the cinema, where many of his works were adapted by different filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg or himself, who also wanted to try what it feels like behind a camera.

Michael was born on October 23, 1942 in Illinois (Chicago), but grew up in Roslyn (New York). The son of a journalist father, he was always encouraged to dedicate himself to writing. He began studying English at Harvard, but was soon disillusioned with the faculty at the faculty. A year later he returned to Harvard, but this time to study medicine. During his years as a student he took the opportunity to write a novel under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffery Hudson. Crichton had to abandon this secrecy when his novel “A Case of Necessity” won the Edgar Award and he had to go in person to receive the award. His success as a writer has accompanied him until the day he died. Many consider him the father of the techno-thriller, a genre that mixes the conventional thriller with scientific stories.

After medical school, he crossed the country to settle in California. There he began his dedication to writing, film and television. In the celluloid world, he was in charge of adapting his own novels, as well as giving up the rights so that others were responsible for bringing his stories to the big screen. Thus, he knew the sweetness of success thanks to the social phenomenon unleashed by Steven Spielberg with Jurassic Park . Barry Levinson also borrowed a couple of his novels to make Sphere and Stalking , as did Frank Marshall in Congo, John McTiernan in The 13th Warrior , and Richard Donner .in Timeline . He collaborated on several scripts such as Jurassic Park , but he also dared to work as a screenwriter on stories that were not based on his novels, such as Twister . But it is that by then he had already proven his ability to write scripts thanks to the successful television series Emergencies . It was born from an original idea of ​​his – assuming that it was closely related to his medical studies – and has been his main screenwriter until his death.

Such a prolific career is completed with his work as a producer and as a director. Although it is true, that behind the cameras Crichton did not achieve the fame or recognition acquired in other fields. But even so, he leaves a legacy of eight titles, including The First Great Train Robbery , Runaway , and Against All Laws . Currently, he had a new literary project in hand that he had to put on hold because of cancer, which has finally ended his life. His family asks for respect during these difficult times. His wife Sherri and his daughter Taylor remember him with affection and devotion on his official page. Crichton had been married to Sherri for three years. Before her there were four more wives among which is the actressAnne-Marie Martin , who gave him his only daughter, Taylor. All of them have witnessed the evolution of a man who perfectly mixed suspense with natural phenomena, science fiction and the most advanced medicine.