Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two of America's bestselling fiction authors have collaborated on a new book, James Patterson and Michael Crichton. What makes this especially remarkable is that Michael Crichton died of cancer nearly ...

These terrifying tales by the likes of Stephen King and Shirley Jackson are more than good reads: They’ll freak you out, too. By Calum Marsh The best-selling author’s estate has filed suit over “The ...

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