Jurassic Park, Westworld, ER... Crichton’s enormous legacy is still being fought over. But who was this eccentric ‘one-man zeitgeist’? His profile has understandably diminished since his ...

In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at Harvard Medical School, sent a manuscript to Robert Gottlieb, who had just taken over as editor-in-chief at Knopf. The document had a ...

He was a prescient observer of society who predicted the downfall of American media. What truly set Crichton apart was his incredible talent as a storyteller. In the vein of Jules Verne and Sir ...