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1. Robert Brown Parker was most famous for his 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser.
2. Parker’s works incorporated encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston Metropolitan area.
3. Parker said he and his wife agreed to a unique living arrangement in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, where they lived separately on different floors of a Victorian house.
4. Parker created female detective Sunny Randall at the request of actress Helen Hunt.
5. Parker collaborated with Japanese photographer Kasho Kumagai on a coffee table book called Spenser’s Boston, exploring the city through Spenser’s “eyes” via high quality, 4-color photos.
6. Parker and his wife created an independent film company called Pearl Productions, based in Boston.
7. Parker and his wife had two sons, David and Daniel, and Parker omitted Spenser’s first name entirely to avoid appearing to favour one son over the other.
8. Parker was awarded three nominations and two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.
9. Parker was a great dog lover and included dogs in his Spenser stories, always named Pearl.
10. Parker collaborated with several authors to continue his series following his death, including Michael Brandman, Reed Farrel Coleman, Mike Lupica and Robert Knott.
11. Parker received the 2002 Joseph E. Connor Memorial Award from the Phi Alpha Tau Fraternity at Emerson College.
12. Before his death in 2010, he was awarded the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award.
13. Parker’s favourite books included The Bear, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and other classics.
14. Parker received his BA degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine and earned his master’s degree and PhD in English literature from Boston University.
15. Parker wrote his first novel in 1971 while teaching at Northeastern University and became a full professor in 1976, full-time writing in 1979.