Robert B. Parker
Novelist, Author
1932 – 2010
Who was Robert B. Parker?
Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. Parker was 77 when he died of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts; discovered at his desk by his wife Joan, he had been working on a novel. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre.
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- Born
- Sep 17, 1932
Springfield - Also known as
- Robert Parker
- Robert Brown Parker
- Ace
- Spouses
- Joan H. Parker
(1956/08/26 - 2010/01/18)
- Joan H. Parker
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Boston University
- Colby College
- Lived in
- Cambridge
- Springfield
- Died
- Jan 18, 2010
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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