John Michael Crichton was born at Chicago, Illinois on this day in 1942. He started writing early with a travel column in the New York Times at fourteen. He pursued a degree in literature at Harvard but disagreed with faculty and switched to anthropology, graduating in 1964. He earned his M.D. at Harvard Medical School in 1969. His breakthrough novel was The Andromeda Strain, he wrote 25 novels, half of which be
Sometimes insightful, often educational, always entertaining
