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24 August 2006
The Write Stuff - Michael
Crichton
"Writers don't need
love - all they require is money," said playwright John
Osbourne. But these authors seem to have plenty of
both.
Michael Crichton –
£33 million
What do the award winning
TV series ER and award winning movie Jurassic Park have in
common? Both were penned by America's highest paid writer
director, Michael Crichton.
Crichton's success as a
writer and producer is staggering. His novels have sold more
than 100 million copies. His movies have grossed more than
$1 billion. He's the only person to have had, all at once,
the number one book, the number one movie and the number one
TV show. In 2004 Forbes placed him seventh in its rich list
of entertainers.
This four times married
"father of techno-thriller" has written 14 novels, four
works of non fiction under his own name and another 10 books
under pseudonyms. He has directed movies, created the much
admired ER series, worked as an anthropology lecturer and a
doctor, headed a software company and invented a computer
game.
Crichton grew up in New
York. He gave up studying English at Harvard, but returned
to train as a doctor. During his medical school days he
secretly wrote novels, one of which, A Case Of Need, won an
award – he had to accept the award personally, which
'outed' him as the author. After giving up medicine,
Crichton moved to Hollywood in the early 1970s.
The 6 foot 9 Crichton has
always been self conscious about his height, but this did
not stop him being named one of People's magazine's 50 most
beautiful people in 1992; and in 2003 a newly discovered
dinosaur was named for him: Crichtonsaurus
bohlini.
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