# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-b-parker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:30.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-b-parker"
name: "Robert B. Parker"
slug: "robert-b-parker"
description: "Robert Brown Parker was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works include the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. In the mid-1980s, based on the character of detective Spenser, ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire.  A series of TV movies was also produced based on the same character. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited as reviving and changing the detective genre by critics and bestselling authors, including Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane."
tagline: "American crime writer (1932–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_B._Parker_at_Manchester_Library.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-09-17"
deathDate: "2010-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump