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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"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erle Stanley Gardner has received more than 1,115,335 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Erle Stanley Gardner is the 2,052nd most popular writer (down from 1,483rd in 2019), the 2,590th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,892nd in 2019) and the 225th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The case of the gilded lily
Detective and mystery stories, Trials (Murder), Open Library Staff Picks
1956
The case of the mythical monkeys
Fiction, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Fiction in English
It all began when pretty Gladys Doyle lost her way and was forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. The next morning she discovered her handsome host gone and a stranger in his place - dead as the proverbial herring. There follows a courtroom scene in the best Perry Mason tradition, with a most reticent group of witnesses: a lady author whose realistic novel is a bit too true to life; Edgar Carlisle, equally talented at telling stories; Richard Gilman, an old hand at the disappearing act; and a smart, sharp operator never at a loss for clever plots. Action and suspense are at their height and the adroit Mason at his legal best in this superb mystery.
1959
The case of the beautiful beggar
Trials (Murder), Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction
1960
The case of the velvet claws
Fiction, Perry Mason (Fictitious character), Trials (Murder)
The first Perry Mason mystery.
1933
The case of the foot-loose doll
Detective and mystery stories, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English
1958
The case of the stuttering bishop
Trials (Murder), Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction
1936

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 2,052 out of 7,302. Before him are Dora d'Istria, Joachim Neander, Camilo Castelo Branco, François Hotman, Nigidius Figulus, and Jacopone da Todi. After him are Lucilius Junior, Philip Kerr, Clive Barker, Vassilis Vassilikos, Mago, and Catherine Breillat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 83. Before him are Kenwa Mabuni, Rezső Seress, Erhard Raus, Léon Brillouin, Imre Schlosser, and Mile Budak. After him are Gabriel Hanot, Fritz Pfeffer, Willi Münzenberg, Alexander Antonov, Walther Gerlach, and Karel Doorman. Among people deceased in 1970, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 90. Before him are Friedrich Kellner, Toshio Iwatani, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Yusof Ishak, Maria Yudina, and Johannes Heinrich Schultz. After him are Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Franz Schlegelberger, Pavel Belyayev, Abraham Zapruder, and Jacques Pills.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 2,590 out of 20,380. Before him are Lily Tomlin (1939), Pat Metheny (1954), Lewis Hine (1874), Robert Gates (1943), Roscoe Arbuckle (1887), and Herbert Blumer (1900). After him are Miguel Ferrer (1955), KRS-One (1965), John Philip Sousa (1854), Matthew Ridgway (1895), George Kelly (1905), and Ben Johnson (1918).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 225. Before him are Eugene Nida (1914), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Richard Brautigan (1935), Bob Woodward (1943), and Tom Wolfe (1930). After him are John Grinder (1940), Walter Tevis (1928), James M. Cain (1892), Terry Brooks (1944), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919), and John Kennedy Toole (1937).

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