Douglas Crichton

Douglas Crichton is the younger brother of novelist and screenwriter Michael Crichton. His one confirmed literary credit is as co-author of Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1970), a marijuana-smuggling caper novel he wrote together with Michael, published under the shared pseudonym "Michael Douglas" -- a pen name formed by joining their first and middle names, unrelated to the actor of the same name. It was the only time the brothers wrote a novel together and the only known use of that joint pseudonym. Beyond this single collaboration, independently verifiable biographical information about Douglas Crichton -- his career, other writing, or later life -- is not readily available in public sources, and this entry deliberately does not speculate beyond what the Dealing publication history itself confirms. He is included in this catalogue solely because of that one co-writing credit, cross-referenced in Michael Crichton's own catalogue entry.