He went to Harvard University where he was told by his teachers that he was not a good writer. After plagiarizing an essay of George Orwell’s and submitting it to his English professor, and getting a B- decided that the English department at Harvard was to tough for him. At this conclusion he decided to study anthropology. In 195 he graduated from Harvard “summa cum laude” with a major in anthropology.

At the age of 23, Michael Crichton was a visiting lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge University, in England. After a year of this he left to pursue a medical career by attending Harvard Medical School where he graduated in 1969. That same year he won the Edgar award for the best mystery of the year, whit his book A Case of Need, written under the pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson. Jeffrey Hudson was one of three pseudonyms that Michael Crichton used. The other two were John Lange, and Michael

“Awards: Recipient of Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allen Poe Award, 1968 (“A Case of Need” written under pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson); and 1980 (“The Great Train Robbery”). Association of American Medical Writers Award, 1970 (“Five Patients”); Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Technical Achievement Award, 1995 (“for pioneering computerized motion picture budgeting and scheduling”) George Foster Peabody Award, 1995 (for “ER”), Writer’s Guild of America Award, Best Long Term Television Script of 1995 (for “ER”); Emmy, Best Dramatic Series, (for “ER”). New ansylosaur named Bienosaurus crichtoni, 2000.” (2)

Some of Michael Crichton’s favorite novels were Lord of the Flies, by William Gelding this is also the novel that he most admires, Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (at lest he considers it a novel); The Thirteen Clocks, James Thurber, Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen; anything by Sigmund Freud, who is undoubtedly the greatest novelist of the 20th century; and some childhood favorites, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Woman in White, Willie Collins, and The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne.

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