Some Wikipedia Facts about Michael Crichton
1. By his own account, he was approximately 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 meters) tall in 1997
2. At Harvard he developed the belief that all diseases, including heart attacks, are direct effects of a patient’s state of mind. He later wrote: “We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.” Eventually he came to believe in auras, spoon bending, and clairvoyance.
3. At the prose level, one of Crichton’s trademarks was the single word paragraph: a dramatic question answered by a single word on its own as a paragraph.
4. In 1992 Crichton was ranked among People magazine’s 50 most beautiful people.
5. As a personal friend to the artist Jasper Johns, Crichton compiled many of his works in a coffee table book, published as Jasper Johns.
6. In his 2006 novel Next…Crichton introduced a character named “Mick Crowley” who is a Yale graduate and a Washington D.C.-based political columnist. “Crowley” was portrayed by Crichton as a child molester with a small penis. … A real person named Michael Crowley is also a Yale graduate, and a senior editor of The New Republic, a liberal Washington D.C.-based political magazine. In March 2006, the real Crowley had written an article strongly critical of Crichton for his stance on global warming in State of Fear.
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