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- CHICAGO
- Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 23, 1942, though he grew up on Long Island, the city of his birth quietly anchors one of literature's great origin stories.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- AMBER
- The engine of Jurassic Park's plot is DNA extracted from prehistoric mosquitoes preserved in amber, an idea rooted in real genetic science that captured imaginations worldwide when the novel was published in 1990.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- FOSSILS
- Crichton consulted with real paleontologists while writing Jurassic Park, bringing an unusual scientific rigor to a story about creatures extinct for roughly 65 million years.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- THRILLER
- Crichton essentially invented the techno-thriller as a popular genre, blending hard science with breakneck pacing in a way that influenced countless authors who followed.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Michael Crichton: The Storyteller Who Brought Dinosaurs Back: a free online word search
Michael Crichton word search, playable online right now for the author who convinced a generation that dinosaurs could walk out of amber.
About Michael Crichton: The Storyteller Who Brought Dinosaurs Back
On October 23, 1942, Michael Crichton came into the world in Chicago, Illinois, and from that beginning grew one of the most restless imaginations in American fiction. He trained as a physician at Harvard Medical School even as he wrote novels on the side, weaving genetics, paleontology, and cutting-edge technology into plots that moved like freight trains. His 1990 masterwork Jurassic Park asked what would happen if cloned dinosaurs walked the earth again, and the world has never quite stopped answering that question.
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