Robert B. Parker is the bestselling author of more than forty-one books. He lives in Boston.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Robert B. Parker completed a Ph. D. in English at Boston University. He married his wife Joan in 1956. He began writing his Spencer novels while teaching at Boston's North-eastern University in 1971. In 1997 he wrote his first Jesse Stone novel, Night Passage. Parker was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2002.