Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was a prolific American author. A former lawyer, he is best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also 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 as Anonymous ("A Fair Trial", "Part Music and Part Tears", and "You Can't Run Away from Yourself" aka "The Jazz Baby")
Erle Stanley Gardner
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American writer and lawyer (1889–1970)
| Born | 17 July 1889 |
| Died | 11 March 1970 |
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Erle Stanley Gardner
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American writer and lawyer (1889–1970)
| Born | 17 July 1889 |
| Died | 11 March 1970 |
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Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Large type books, Lawyers, fiction, Fiction, legal, Trials (Murder), Mason, perry (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, California, fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction in English, Translations into Russian, Investigation, Open Library Staff Picks, Murder, Fiction, crime, Private investigators, Description and travel, Mason, Perry (Fictitious character), Public prosecutors, Donald Lam (Fictitious character), Lawyers, American fictionPlaces
United States, California, Baja California (Mexico), Los Angeles, New Southwest, Mexico, Sacramento River (Calif.), American Desert (Armagosa Creek), Arizona, Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula), Baker Street, CA, Delta Region, Delta Region (Calif.), Gaitlin, Grand Island, Jamaica, London, Nebraska, Puget Sound (Wash.), Sacramento River, Santa Monica, Southern California, West (U.S.), southern CaliforniaPeople
Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Perry Mason, Perry (Fictitious character) Mason, Bertha Cool (fictional characters), Della Street, Donal Lam, Adam Greenlaw, Amos Deigan, Archie, Baby Hortense, Bertha Cool, Bob Zane, Buck Owens, Burt Robeson, Carl Montaine, Carlos, Clayton Gilman, Craig Boardman, David, Dick Sprague, Donald Lam, Donna Stigman, Duncan Ross, Edward Hollis, Elizabeth TaylorTime
1950's, 1890, 1930's, 1958, 20th century, 20th century mysteries, Around 1930, Late 1940's, carnival, early 1960s, mid-1930'sID Numbers
- OLID: OL23222A
- BookBrainz: 9fd604e8-1c42-4ffe-b325-858c333db66b
- GoodReads: 10214
- ISNI: 0000000120312800
- IMDb: nm0306916
- Library of Congress Names: n79071101
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV106557
- VIAF: 97201005
- Wikidata: Q357065
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q357065
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Alternative names
- A. A. Fair
- Kyle Corning
- Charles M. Green
- Carleton Kendrake
- Charles J. Kenny
- Robert Parr
- Les Tillray
- Stephen Caldwell
- Della Street
- Carl Franklin Ruth
- Edward Leaming
- Grant Holiday
- A.A.Fair
- Gardner Es
- Gardner E.S.
- A A.Fair
- Fair, A . A . (pseud. of Gardner, Erle Stanley)
- Erle Stanley GARDNER
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- Fair, A. A. (Gardner, Erle Stanley)
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- Erle Stanley Gardner and Agatha Christie Ellery Queen
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- Erle Stanley Gardner & Mignon G. Eberhart
- Erle Stanley Gardner, Frances & Richard Lockridge, Hilda Lawrence
- Erle Stanley Gardner and Agatha Christie
- ERIE STANLEY GARDNER
- A.A. Fair Erle Stanley Gardner
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- Erle Stanley Gardner writing under the name of A.A.Fair
- Erle Stanley Gardner, Rae Foley, J.J. MArric
- Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Frances & Richard Lockridge
- erle stanley gardner / ellery queen
- Erley Stanley Gardner
- Erle Stanley Gardner, Frances and Richard Lockridge, Manning Coles
- Erle Stanley Gardner, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham
- Erle Stanley Gardner, Joan Fleming, Aaron Marc Stein
- A. A. Gardner Earl Stanley
- Erly Stanley Gardner
- Erle Stanly Gardner
- Erley Stanley GArdner
- Erle Stanley Gardner Rupert Hughes
- a. a. fair
- A.A. Fair
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