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Erle Stanley Gardner

1889 - 1970

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Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories. Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. The best-selling American author of the 20th century at the time of his death, Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A. Fair, Carl Franklin Ruth, Carleton Kendrake, Charles M. Green, Charles J. Kenny, Edward Leaming, Grant Holiday, Kyle Corning, Les Tillray, Robert Parr, Stephen Caldwell, and once as the Perry Mason character Della Street ("The Case of the Suspect Sweethearts"). Three stories were published anonymously: "A Fair Trial", "Part Music and Part Tears", and "You Can't Run Away from Yourself", also known as "The Jazz Baby". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erle Stanley Gardner is the 1,850th most popular writer (up from 2,051st in 2019), the 2,711th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,590th in 2019) and the 218th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 1,850 out of 7,302. Before him are I. L. Peretz, Simon Dach, Giovannino Guareschi, Marcel Schwob, Namık Kemal, and Hans F. K. Günther. After him are Sarah Moore Grimké, R. M. Ballantyne, Miklós Nyiszli, John Green, Aelianus Tacticus, and Feng Menglong.

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Among people born in 1889, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 79. Before him are Takeo Kurita, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Tom Naudé, Philippe Thys, Léon Brillouin, and Pierre Reverdy. After him are Karel Doorman, Imre Schlosser, Warner Baxter, Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Erhard Raus, and Ernst Niekisch. Among people deceased in 1970, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 83. Before him are Marlen Haushofer, Ludolf von Alvensleben, Jan Syrový, Feroz Khan Noon, Leonarda Cianciulli, and Richard Neutra. After him are Michał Kalecki, Polina Zhemchuzhina, Théo Sarapo, Eiji Tsuburaya, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and Albert Lamorisse.

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Among people born in United States, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 2,711 out of 20,380. Before him are Judd Hirsch (1935), Buddy Rich (1917), George Lakoff (1941), Robert Culp (1930), Charles Moore (1929), and Sam Waterston (1940). After him are Chris Sanders (1962), Marion Ramsey (1947), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), Ron Brown (1941), Ellen Barkin (1954), and John Green (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 218. Before him are Upton Sinclair (1878), William Carlos Williams (1883), Stephen Crane (1871), Paul Goodman (1911), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), and Philip José Farmer (1918). After him are Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), John Green (1977), Richard Ford (1944), Siri Hustvedt (1955), Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), and Shirley Jackson (1916).

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