People like Robert Crichton

Robert Crichton (January 29, 1925 – March 23, 1993) was an American novelist.

Crichton was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up in Bronxville, New York. Robert Crichton's father, Kyle Crichton, was a writer/editor for Collier's magazine with experience as a coal miner and steel worker; he wrote novels and biographies (including a biography of the Marx Brothers) and also wrote for the communist publications The New Masses and the Daily Worker using the name Robert Forsythe, publishing a collection of articles that was entitled Redder Than the Rose.

Crichton joined the army and served in the infantry during World War II, and was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. Before returning to the United States, he managed an ice cream factory on the outskirts of Paris; it was, he said, his decompression chamber. He attended Harvard University using the GI Bill and was a member of the famed class of 1950.