Novelist Michael Crichton never talked much about his works in progress, says his widow, Sherri Crichton. But she could sometimes pick up clues. “I knew of a volcano story,” she says. “That would ...

James Patterson has written around 200 books, often with famous co-authors ranging from President Bill Clinton to Dolly Parton.But his latest collaboration presented the perennial bestseller with a ...

“Eruption,” trailing clouds of publicity, is the summer’s ultimate literary mashup. Death has not appreciably slowed Michael Crichton’s publication schedule. Since he passed away in 2008, several of ...

It’s like something out of a Michael Crichton novel. After a bestselling author dies tragically from cancer at the age of 66, his pregnant widow assembles a crack team of experts — including a ...

Sherri Crichton was on a mission. She was poring over filing cabinets, old computers and scattered notes when she finally found it: a manuscript from her late husband, “Jurassic Park” and “Congo” ...

A famous making-of story from Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park revolves around a scrapped raft scene, pulled from Michael Crichton's 1990 sci-fi novel. Alan Grant (played on the big screen by Sam ...