Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton was an American physician, author, screenwriter, director and producer. He died unexpectedly on November 4, 2008, following a private battle with throat cancer.Entertainment Tonight: Author Michael Crichton dies unexpectedly

Two new novels written by Crichton are being released in the near future. The first, Pirate Latitudes, will come out in November of 2009 and the second, a new technological thriller, will be released in 2010, after being completed by a co-author yet to be determined.PerezHilton: Michael Crichton To Release 2 Books (April 6, 2009)

Career

Michael Crichton obtained his M.D. from Harvard medical school in 1969. While still in medical school, he had his first novel published, A Case of Need. Originally writing in different genres, Crichton's later works are thrillers with an emphasis on cutting edge or extrapolative technology gone wrong.

Crichton has also written and directed for film and television. He is the creator of the successful NBC medical drama ER.

Fiction

1966: Odds On
1967: Scratch One
1968: Easy Go and A Case of Need
1969: The Andromeda Strain, The Venom Business and Drug of Choice
1970: Dealing and Grave Descend
1972: Binary and The Terminal Man
1975: The Great Train Robbery
1976: Eaters of the Dead
1980: Congo
1987: Sphere
1990: Jurassic Park
1992: Rising Sun
1994: Disclosure
1995: The Lost World
1996: Airframe
1999: Timeline
2002: Prey
2004: State of Fear
2006: Next

Non-Fiction

1970: Five Patients
1977: Jasper Johns
1983: Electronic Life
1988: Travels