Playbill

March, 1972

At 29, Michael Crichton is a phenomenon. He's been called a one-man writing factory, the Jules Verne of our time. He's also a physician (nonpracticing) and a fellow of the Salk Institute (on leave). Crichton himself has lost track of just how many books he's written, under his own name or one of three pseudonyms (as "Michael Douglas" he authored with his brother the novel Dealing, which was serialized last year in Playboy and is now onscreen as a Warner Bros. release). His latest, The...