User:JSFarman/sandbox/Joan Parker

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/23/garden/at-home-with-joan-and-robert-b-parker-a-house-divided-lovingly.html?mcubz=2

nytimes story

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/06/13/joan-parker-writer-and-philanthropist-was-muse-her-late-husband-spenser-novelist-robert-parker/4VLDZLrqHBjlWxcLpuujMK/story.html

http://people.com/archive/bob-and-joan-parker-find-that-good-walls-make-a-good-marriage-vol-30-no-13/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/books/joan-h-parker-inspiration-for-heroine-of-spenser-mysteries-dies-at-80.html?mcubz=2 NYTimes obit

Joan Hall Parker was an American activist, philanthropist, and writer. The wife of Robert B. Parker, she was the inspiration for Susan Silverman, the fictional girlfriend of the private investigator Spenser.

She studied psychology at Colby and graduated from Tufts University with a master’s in early childhood growth. Mrs. Parker was working for the state Department of Education when she quit to write television scripts based on her husband’s books. They founded Pearl Productions and co-wrote the 1990 book “A Year at the Races.”