An outsize figure in almost every possible way-he stood 6 ft. 9 in.-Michael Crichton died of cancer Nov. 4 in Los Angeles at the age of 66. It would require several obituaries to do justice to his polymathic professional accomplishments. Crichton trained as a doctor at Harvard Medical School, directed several feature films and created ER, one of the most successful TV dramas of all time. But it's as a novelist that Crichton was best known.
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