Which publisher released Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novel?

Alfred A. Knopf released Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel.

Crichton submitted the manuscript to Knopf in May 1990, and the book appeared in the United States in October of that year. The hardcover was issued by the Knopf imprint, whose distinctive publishing identity is separate from the broader corporate companies associated with it.

The novel became a major bestseller and was followed by Crichton’s sequel, The Lost World, in 1995. Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film adaptation greatly expanded the book’s audience, but it did not change the original novel’s publisher.

Random House is a common distractor because Alfred A. Knopf later became part of the Random House corporate family. Bantam Books and Doubleday were also major publishers, but they did not release the original 1990 edition. Thus, the precise answer for the first edition is Alfred A. Knopf, not the parent company or a later edition’s distributor.