His other works of nonfiction include Five Patients: The Hospital Explained, 1970, and Travels, 1988. 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 called Amazon is a committed collector of modern art and the author of a learned study on Jasper Johns ( Jasper Johns, 1977). He has directed six movies, including Westworld, Coma, and The Great Train Robbery, and is the creator of the hit television series ER (which won eight emmys in 1995). 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 and The 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 then pursued postgraduate studies at the Salk Institute in California before taking up writing full time. By the time he graduated, Crichton had already written a bestseller ( The Andromeda Strain, 1969) and sold it to Hollywood.
He paid his way through medical school by writing pseudonymous thrillers, one of which ( A Case of Need, 1968) won an Edgar Award. Upon his return to the States, Crichton began training as a doctor, and was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969. At twenty-three, Crichton was a visiting lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge University, England. Michael Crichton was born in Chicago and was graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University.
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