Adesuwa Omoruan is dubbed the "queen of selfies" by her siblings. She confesses to taking more selfies than regulars photographs. When Adesuwa Omoruan was a child, she never thought or imagined herself becoming a broadcaster; it was the last thing she ever thought of becoming. As far as she was concerned, the lifestyle of reporters was not up to par with the kind of life she wanted, as the young dreamer that she was at the time. She wanted a life that was rich and full of the best life could offer, although she wasn't seeking a life that was necessarily flamboyant. "I just felt that journalist were not paid enough... My idea of a journalist wasn't just working at that time. Sometimes they looked very stressed, very few of them had cars... Growing up, I had this picture of what I wanted to be in life..." She had wanted to become a banker! As a child, she had taken trips to the bank with her mother on several occasions to cash-in her moth
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| Crichton at Harvard, 2002. |
Michael Crichton is my favorite author in the world simply because of his style of writing. Michael Crichton combines intellectuality with entertainment producing a pulsating edge-of-your-seat storytelling. The first Crichton book I ever got my hand on was Sphere. It was my introduction to him. I read that book in one sweep- finishing the same day I started to read it. From then on, I decided I was going to read as many of his books I could get. Right now I think I've average about ten of his books.
This delightsome novelist was born John Michael Crichton in October 23, 1942 (he passed away on November 4, 2008) in Chicago, Illinois to a journalist father, John Henderson Crichton. He was raised on Long Island, in Roslyn, New York. He showed a keen interest in writing from a young age of 14. He had a column related to travel published in The New York Times. Crichton had always planned on becoming a writer and began his studies at Harvard College in 1960. During his undergraduate study in literature, he conducted an experiment to expose a professor who he believed was giving him abnormally low marks and criticizing his literary style. Informing another professor of his suspicions, Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name. The paper was returned by his unwitting professor with a mark of "B−". His issues with the English department led Crichton to switch his undergraduate concentration; he obtained his bachelor's degree in biological anthropology summa cum laude in 1964 and was initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship from 1964 to 1965 and was a visiting lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965.
Initially, Crichton published his work using the pen names "John Lange" and "Jeffrey Hudson". Hudson was the name he used for the medical thriller, A Case of Need (which won him an Edgar Award for best novel in 1969), a novel that examined the public perceptions of abortion in Boston.
His first published novel was Odd on followed by Scratch One. Beyond being a novelist, Crichton was a screenwriter, film director, producer and a once-upon-a-time physician.
In 1994, Michael Crichton became the only creative artist to ever have his work charting number one in US television simultaneously.
Books Written includes, but not limited to, the following:
Odds on, Scratch One, Sphere, A Case of Need, Rising Sun, The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, The Terminal Man, Timeline, Eaters of the Dead, Congo, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Disclosure, Prey, Airframe, etc
And four non-fictions:
Travels, Jasper Johns, Electronic Life and Five Patients.
Michael Crichton has produced movies and created a video game, Amazon. He won awards like Edgar Allan Poe Award, Association of American Medical Writers Award, George Foster Peabody Award among others.
I've been inspired by Michael Crichton. Visit his website on www.crichton-official.com
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