Another Rbt Parker anecdote

[Mark Kohut]

Concerning the late Robert B. Parker, Chuck Robinson, co-owner of Village Books, Bellingham, Wash., remembered "a time years ago when we and other booksellers had lunch with him in Seattle. Someone at the table asked, "When did you stop teaching?" He replied, "I stopped teaching about ten years ago. . . . I left the college two years ago." We, like lots of other booksellers, read Parker's early Spenser novels and even collected them.  He was quite a wit and will be missed.