Michael Crichton passed away Tuesday, at the age of 66, after a long struggle with cancer. Michael Crichton was a famous American author, film producer, medic and TV producer being well known for his sci-fi books and for the famous movie, Jurassic Park. His books were well appreciated by the public, as they were immensely entertaining and contained some knowledge that the reader learned without even knowing. He is most famous for his sci-fi novels from which some titles come to mind like Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Timeline, Prey, Next or State of Fear.

Michael Crichton was born in Chicago and spent his childhood in Roslyn, Long Island, New York, along with his sisters, Catherine and Kimberly, and his brother Douglas. Crichton graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1964. In 1969 he obtained a medical MD from Harvard Medical School, a profession he later abandoned for his love of sci-fi. The novels written during medical school were written under the pseudonyms John Lange or Jeffery Hudson, his novel A Case of Need being published under the name of Jeffrey Hudson.

His career in movies and television consisted of directing and writing screenplays for several very successful productions. In 1979 he directed and wrote the screenplay for The Great Train Robbery, in 1993 he worked on the screenplay for the all-time classic Jurassic Park, he created, wrote and produced the famous TV series ER and in 1996 he worked on the screenplay of the movie Twister. Michael Crichton will be missed as he was a man of many talents, who used his gift for entertaining the public and trying to give some good to a very unbalanced world.