Airframe

Michael Crichton was born in Chicago and was graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. At twenty-three, Crichton was a visiting lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge University, England. Upon his return to the States, Crichton began training as a doctor, and was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969. He paid his way through medical school by writing pseudonymous thrillers, one of which (A Case of Need, 1968) won an Edgar Award. By the time he graduated, Crichton had already written a bestseller (The Andromeda Strain, 1969) and sold it to Hollywood. He then pursued postgraduate studies at the Salk Institute in California before taking up writing full time. Crichton has written ten novels --The Andromeda Strain, 1969;The Terminal Man, 1972;The Great Train Robbery, 1975;Eaters of the Dead, 1976;Congo, 1980;Sphere, 1987;Jurassic Park, 1990;Rising Sun, 1992;Disclosure, 1994; andThe Lost World, 1995 -- each of which displays an intimate knowledge of a different, specialist subject, among them primatology, neurobiology, biophysics, international economics, Nordic history and genetics. He has directed six movies, includingWestworld, Coma, andThe Great Train Robbery, and is the creator of the hit television seriesER(which won eight emmys in 1995). He is a computer expert who wrote one of the first books about information technology (Electronic Life, 1983); he has run a software company; he has designed a computer game calledAmazon; is a committed collector of modern art and the author of a learned study on Jasper Johns (Jasper Johns, 1977). His other works of nonfiction includeFive Patients: The Hospital Explained, 1970, andTravels, 1988. Crichton's novels have been translated into twenty-four languages; eight of his novels have been made into films, includingJurassic Park, one of the most successful films in motion picture history. Michael Crichton is married and lives in Los Angeles. From the Hardcover edition.Crichton, Michael is the author of 'Airframe' with ISBN 9780345503091 and ISBN 0345503090.