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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Happy Birthday To Author Michael Crichton
As Biography.com notes, today is the birthday of the late author Michael Crichton.
You can read a piece about his life and watch a video clip via the below link:
http://www.biography.com/people/michael-crichton-381010
In addtion to his sci-fi and medical thrillers, Crichton also wrote crime thrillers, such as Rising Sun and The Great Train Robbery. Crichton also directed Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland in the film The Great Train Robbery.
Hard Case Crime has recently published Crichton's early crime thrillers, written under the name John Lange. I happen to be reading one of the early crime thrillers, Grave Descend.
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