Jasper Johns
As a personal friend of the artist Jasper Johns, Crichton compiled many of his works in a coffee table book, published as "Jasper Johns". It was originally published in 1970 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art and again in January 1977, with a second revised edition published in 1994. The psychiatrist Janet Ross owned a copy of the painting "Numbers" by Jasper Johns in Crichton's later novel "The Terminal Man". The technophobic antagonist of the story found it odd that a person would paint numbers as they were inorganic.