 He said he had finished on a novel taken from a line in the Book of Job, about a New Yorker who communicates with an alien spacecraft, but had been unable to find a publisher for it.When Strand Bookstore employee Burt Britton solicited a self portrait sketch in 1975, Grossman provided an awkward circle with the caption, "E = MC2" and a scrawled signature.He died in 1987.