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Robert B. Parker | |
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 Parker in 2006 | |
| Born | Robert Brown Parker September 17, 1932 Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | January 18, 2010 (aged 77)[1] Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | 1974–2010 |
| Genre | Detective fiction, Western fiction |
| Notable works | Spenser series Jesse Stone series Sunny Randall series |
| Spouse | Joan Hall Parker (m. 1956) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
| robertbparker | |
Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional 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 was also produced based on the character. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area.[2] The Spenser novels have been cited as reviving and changing the detective genre by critics and bestselling authors,[3] including Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane.[4]
Parker also wrote nine novels featuring Jesse Stone, a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town; six novels with Sunny Randall, a female private investigator; and four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. The first was Appaloosa, made into a film starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. The Jesse Stone books were adapted into a series of TV films starring Tom Selleck.
Since Parker's death, his family and estate have allowed all of his series to continue with various different authors involved: the Spenser books have been taken over by Ace Atkins (2012-2022) and Mike Lupica (2023-present); Jesse Stone by Michael Brandman (2011-2013), Reed Farrel Coleman (2014-2019) and Lupica (2020-2022); Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch by Robert Knott; and Sunny Randall by Lupica (2018-2020) and Alison Gaylin (2023).
- ^ "'Spenser' novelist Robert Parker dies in Cambridge". Boston Herald. Associated Press. 2010-01-19. Retrieved 2010-01-19.
- ^ Geherin, David (c. 1980). Sons of Sam Spade: the private-eye novel in the 70s: Robert B. Parker, Roger L. Simon, Andrew Bergman. Ungar. ISBN 0-8044-2231-1.
- ^ "Robert B. Parker left a mark on the detective novel" by Sarah Weinman, Los Angeles Times [1]
- ^ "His Spenser Novels Saved Detective Fiction" by Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal [2]