It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

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• Robert B. Parker:

  Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

• Robert B. Parker:

  I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the

• Robert B. Parker:

  For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up wi

• Robert B. Parker:

  It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught u

• Robert B. Parker:

  With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

• Robert B. Parker:

  Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

• Robert B. Parker:

  I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

• Robert B. Parker:

  She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.

• Robert B. Parker:

  Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

• Robert B. Parker:

  Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.