Robert B. Parker - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	17-September-1932
Place of Birth	Springfield (Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Area code 413)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Robert Parker, Robert Brown Parker, Ace, Ð Ð¾Ð±ÐµÑ€Ñ‚ Ð‘Ñ€Ð°ÑƒÐ½ ÐŸÐ°Ñ€ÐºÐµÑ€
Profession	Writer, Novelist, Crime writer
Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the novels about the 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 based on the character were also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. Parker was 77 when he died of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts; discovered at his desk by his wife Joan, he had been working on a novel. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre.

Awards by Robert B. Parker

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert B. Parker.

2002

Edgar Grand Master Award

1995

THE EYE – Lifetime Achievement Award

1990

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay	Blues For Buder

1986

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel	A Catskill Eagle

1984

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel	The Widening Gyre

1983

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel	Ceremony

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel	Early Autumn

1977

Edgar Award for Best Novel

Honored for : Promised Land

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Novel	Promised Land

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