Thursday night HarperCollins convened a small tribute to the late Michael Crichton, attended by many family members and friends (including former Harper ceo Jane Friedman). Crichton’s longtime agent Lynn Nesbit recalled with emotion how he said to her, “Let’s grow up in the business together, and we did.” She noted, “It’s a happy event because he did leave so much behind.” And she promised there was more Crichton to come, since “he laid out the whole concept of the next book.: Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham confirmed afterwards that Crichton left behind approximately 90 manuscript pages of a novel-in-progress, along with […]
