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“A terrific novelist…He could make most readers lose sleep all night and call in sick the next day.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Michael Crichton has written some of America’s most fantastic novels.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Crichton is a master storyteller.” —Detroit News
“Crichton has proved to be uncannily timely.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Crichton does an admirable job of explaining complex scientific ideas and integrating them with his gripping story.” —Booklist
“He is without peer.” —Chattanooga Times
“One of the great storytellers of our age…What an amazing imagination.” —Newsday
“Crichton delivers.” —USA Today
“Crichton is a doctor of suspense.” —Des Moines Sunday Register
“Crichton writes superbly…the excitement rises with each page.” —Chicago Tribune
“Readers turn to Michael Crichton’s novels for entertainment with relentless drive.” —San Antonio Express
“[Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order.” —Denver Post
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Biography
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) is one of the most prolific bestselling authors of all time with over 200 million copies sold worldwide, in forty languages, including Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere, Next, Prey, Disclosure, Eaters of the Dead, and Congo. His books have been adapted into fifteen films, most notably Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg which launched one of the highest-grossing entertainment franchises of all time. A remarkable and versatile talent, Crichton wrote and directed several films including Westworld, The Great Train Robbery (based on his novel), and Coma and created the television series ER. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. After writing novels under the pseudonyms John Lange and Jeffery Hudson while he was still a medical student, his first bestseller as Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain, was adapted into a classic film.
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