Michael Crichton has been called a "megastar" who has made a resounding impression on the literary world. Critics applaud him as a writer who is entertaining to read and who can "elaborate a gripping high concept into a crackerjack tale" (Publishers Week...

Michael Crichton (born 1942) is best known as a novelist of popular fiction whose stories explore the confrontation between traditional social and moral values and the demands of the new technological age. His most successful novel, Jurassic Park (1990),...

Michael Crichton has had a number of successful careers--physician, teacher, film director, screenwriter--but he is perhaps best known for pioneering the "techno-thriller" with novels such as The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and Jurassic Park. Whether writi...

See also diagrams, history and English Timelines are vertical or horizontal representations of a journey through time. They can cover a thousand years or the events of a day or even an hour. They always involve careful selection of what to include and...

Timeline is a science fiction novel by Michael Crichton that was published in November 1999. It tells the story of historians who travel to the Middle Ages thanks to the work of a brilliant yet unprincipled entrepreneur who plans to use the technology...

A chronology of events in the Duke lacrosse case:March 13, 2006 _ Duke University lacrosse players throw a party at an off-campus house, hiring two strippers.March 14 _ One of the dancers tells Durham, N.C., police she was forced into a bathroom by three men...

Here is a chronology of events since Paris Hilton's arrest last year.Sept. 7: Officers arrest Paris Hilton in Hollywood for investigation of driving under the influence after she was spotted "driving erratically."Sept. 26: Hilton is charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence.Jan. 9: Hilton's lawyers...

Some significant dates in the Washington career of Alberto R. Gonzales, the nation's 80th U.S. attorney general who announced his resignation Monday.January 2001: Named President Bush's White House legal counsel.Jan. 25, 2002: In a memo, Gonzales contends that the president can waive anti-torture laws and...

A timeline of events leading up to the conviction of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on charges stemming from the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name._Jan. 28: President Bush asserts in his State of the Union address: "The British government has...