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- Writer: The Great Impostor. Robert Crichton was born on 19 January 1925 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He was a writer, known for The Great Impostor (1960), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) and The Camerons (1979). He was married to Judy Crichton. He died on 23 March 1993 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
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Set in an Italian hill-town and telling the story of local resistance to the Nazis during World War II, the novel was adapted into a Golden Globe -winning movie of the same name by Stanley Kramer in 1969, featuring Anthony Quinn .
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Crichton's first book, The Great Impostor, published in 1959, was the true, if picaresque, story. Crichton was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up in Bronxville, New York. [1] He served in the infantry during World War II, and was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.
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- March 23, 1993
- January 29, 1925
Mar 24, 1993 · Robert Crichton, author of the best sellers "The Great Impostor" and "The Secret of Santa Vittoria," which became popular films, died yesterday at a nursing home in New Rochelle. He was 68.
Robert Crichton was born on January 19, 1925 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He was a writer, known for The Great Impostor (1960), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) and The Camerons (1979). He was married to Judy Crichton. He died on March 23, 1993 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
- January 19, 1925
- March 23, 1993
John Michael Crichton (/ ˈ k r aɪ t ən /; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.
Robert Crichton (1925-1993) was a novelist and magazine writer. Born in New Mexico, Crichton spent most of his life in New York after serving in the Army during World War II in the Battle of the Bulge and graduating from Harvard in 1951.
Set in an Italian hill-town and telling the story of local resistance to the Nazis during World War II, the novel was adapted into a Golden Globe winning film of the same name in 1969. Crichton's second and last novel, The Camerons, published by Knopf in 1972, was drawn from the lives of his great grandparents, a Scottish coal mining family.
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