In the mid-1990s, a cartoon in the New Yorker depicted a woman in a bookshop asking, “What can you recommend that’s not by Michael Crichton?” His profile has understandably diminished since his death ...

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 ...

Michael Crichton, whose books were made into such eventful Hollywood films as "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain," has died after a battle with cancer. He was 66. By Carl DiOrio, The Associated ...

Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park," died from cancer in 2008, leaving behind many unfinished manuscripts. Michael's widow, Sherri Crichton, tapped bestselling author James Patterson to ...

When “Jurassic Park” author Michael Crichton died from cancer in 2008, he left behind numerous unfinished projects, including a manuscript he began 20 years ago about the imminent eruption of Mauna ...

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Michael Crichton may be the literary world's Tupac Shukur. A new Crichton book is set to be released in the fall (though Crichton would need seven more books published to match the ...

A new, posthumous story of science gone wrong is coming in November from the late Michael Crichton, with help by Richard Preston. Crichton, author of such blockbusters as "Jurassic Park" and "The ...

Michael Crichton sometimes butchered the details of the science he described, but he rarely failed to convey its wonder. He built a scientific legacy that was rich, but uneven, according to scientists ...

Crichton pays homage, again, to Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World in this entertaining historical thriller whose manuscript was discovered posthumously. But instead of the living dinosaurs of ...

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,” Sherri Crichton says. “That ...

Michael Crichton's estate is suing Warner Bros. Television over an upcoming show they claim is an unauthorized reboot of "ER." His widow, Sherri Crichton, who has been running Michael's estate since ...

The estate of the best-selling author, which has intellectual property rights to “ER,” and the creators of the new hit TV show are waging a legal battle over whether it’s a stealth reboot. By Nicholas ...