3 He also anticipated the feminist surge by detailing Spenser’s monogamous relationship with psychologist Susan Silverman, which deepens from novel to novel. By this time he had developed “some of the snappiest and sauciest dialogue in the business,” wrote Jean M. Parker followed with four more novels and resigned his professorship in 1979 to write full time. Parker added an element of sensitivity, however, and gave Spenser a “perfect woman” for his girlfriend, so that he does not chase women. Parker’s first novel, The Godwulf Manuscript (1974), featured an ex-boxer, ex-cop hero, fired for insubordination, vintage Hammett/Chandler. People who don’t know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.” 2 “The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. In academia he found time to write: “Being a professor and working are not the same thing,” he said. He taught part- and full-time at the University of Lowell, Massachusetts State – Bridgewater and Northeastern University, where he rose through the ranks to become a full professor in 1976. During this time Parker also worked as a management trainee, technical writer (Raytheon Corp) and advertising writer (Prudential and Parker-Farman, an agency). (1970) from Boston University, writing a doctoral dissertation on the detectives of Hammett, Chandler and Macdonald as descendants of the heroes of James Fenimore Cooper.
17,1932), Parker attended Colby College and served a tour in the U.S. Like Macdonald, Parker holds a doctorate in English and spent many years teaching in the university his fiction is similarly informed by literary allusion and a concern for social justice.īorn in Springfield, Massachusetts (Sept. Parker (1932 – 2010) was a student of the genre before he became a master. The “Spenser” detective series, wrote Anne Ponder in Armchair Detective, is “the best American hard-boiled detective fiction since Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler.”1 High praise, but Robert B.
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