Robert B. Parker is the author of five previous novels The Godwulf Manuscript God Save the Child, Mortal Stakes, Promise Land, and The Judas Goat all of them about a Boston private detective known as Spenser. Promised Land won the Edgar All Poe Award in the USA for the best myste novel of 1976. Wilderness is his first non-Spenser novel.
Robert Parker and his wife, Joan, are co-authors of Three Weeks in Spring, an autobiographical book. They live in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, with their two sons, David and Daniel.