Robert B. Parker, the creator of personal favorite private detective ‘Spencer’, is a crime novel writer. Parker arrived in the world on the seventeenth day of September in the annum ’32, in Springfield–one of the largest cities of the American State of Massachusetts.
Robert B. Parker earned degree in Bachelor of Arts from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He then served the US Army in Korea for two years. He went to the Boston University to do his Master’s in English and then pursued his career as a technical writer. After a few years he earned a PhD degree in the subject of English literature. Robert B. Parker wrote dissertation on the topic of “The Violent Hero, Wilderness Heritage and Urban Reality” in which he discussed the fictional characters created by Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler in their writings.
Since then he devoted his life to writing novels and came up with his own imaginary character and named him Spencer, who shared a similarity with the author; both worked for the US Army in Korea. Spencer was an ex-boxer and ex-detective at Massachusetts State Police. Thirty seven year old Spencer is an extremely educated man, loves to cook and has only one friend from whom he seeks useful advices. Out of the sixty novels that Parker wrote, forty novels feature Spencer as the main character. Based on Parker’s novels, a mystery television drama titled Spencer: For Hire, developed by John Wilder was aired in the early eighties. Other than Spencer, other characters of Parker’s novels are Philip Marlowe, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall. Robert B. Parker received numerous awards of which the significant ones are Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award, Grand Master Award and Best Novel Award for the annum ’77. Parker died in the January in the annum ’10 after suffering a heart attack at the age of seventy seven. He left behind his wife Joan H. Parker, sons David and Daniel and of course sixty of his best selling crime novels for you to read and take pleasure in. One of the novels has been adapted for the movie Jesse Stone: No Remorse, the first part of which was aired on the ninth day of the month of May in the annum ’10 on the CBS Television Network.
Robert B. Parker
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