Michael Crichton, whose full name was John Michael Crichton and who lived from 1942 to 2008, was an American author and filmmaker whose books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, with more than a dozen adapted into films. His fiction falls mostly within science fiction, the techno-thriller and medical fiction, and often explores human technological advancement and attempted dominance over nature, frequently with catastrophic results. He earned an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1969 but chose writing over medicine, and he published 25 novels in his lifetime, among them The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Congo, Sphere, Timeline and Prey. He also wrote and directed the film Westworld in 1973 and created the television series ER.
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was an American author
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October 23, 1942, November 4, 2008
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was an American author
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within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres
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within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres
In Genre: Medical Fiction, Lead section [in-genre]
within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres
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za, genere questo di cui è stato uno dei più creativi rappresentanti, ha pubblicato romanzi di avventura spesso tradotti in sceneggiature per il grande schermo: The great train robbery (1975), di cui ha curato anche la regia; Congo (1980); Jurassic Park (1990); The lost world (1995); State of fear (
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i negli USA (in Italia trasmessa a partire dal 1995), originariamente ispirata dalla sua raccolta di racconti Five patients (1970). Postumi sono stati pubblicati, tra gli altri, Pirates latitudes (2009; trad. it. L'isola dei pirati, 2009), il techno-thriller Micro (2011; trad. it. 2012), The Androme
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Arthur Conan Doyle, creador de Sherlock Holmes, el cual precisamente, junto a Mark Twain o Alfred Hitchcock según decía, eran las mayores influencias en su carrera
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Arthur Conan Doyle, creador de Sherlock Holmes, el cual precisamente, junto a Mark Twain o Alfred Hitchcock según decía, eran las mayores influencias en su carrera
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