Michael Crichton

American · b. 1942

Michael Crichton graduated Harvard Medical School but never practiced — The Andromeda Strain hit while he was still a student, and the techno-thriller had found its master. Jurassic Park, Westworld, Congo, and ER made him the only person to have the #1 book, film, and TV show simultaneously; his formula — real science, systems failing, hubris billed — never missed.