Robert B. Parker Writer

Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	September 17, 1932
Birth name	Robert Brown Parker
Birth place	Springfield Massachusetts , United States
Nationality	United States
Date of death	January 18, 2010
Place of death	Cambridge Massachusetts , United States

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Writer

Career start	1974
Career end	2010
genre	Western fiction Crime fiction
influenced	Peter David Harlan Coben Colin Bateman Jay Faerber Robert Crais Dennis Lehane
influenced by	Raymond Chandler Ross Macdonald Dashiell Hammett Rex Stout