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 ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with James Patterson and Sherri Crichton. The new novel “Eruption” is written by Patterson and Crichton's late husband, Michael. Two of America's bestselling fiction authors ...

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” ...