R.I.P. Michael Crichton

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  11.05.08 | 1:37 PM ET

imageThe author of many blockbuster airplane novels, as well as the simply titled Travels, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 66. His travels informed his life. “Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am,” he wrote.