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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, 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"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erle Stanley Gardner has received more than 1,049,953 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Erle Stanley Gardner is the 1,486th most popular writer (up from 2,115th in 2019), the 1,893rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,654th in 2019) and the 177th most popular American Writer.

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  • 57.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 1,486 out of 5,755. Before him are Gunnar Gunnarsson, William Carlos Williams, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Michel Verne, Maria Valtorta, and Hugo Claus. After him are Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, François de Malherbe, Georges Duhamel, Gampopa, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Gottfried von Strassburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 61. Before him are Fritz Pfeffer, Hannah Höch, María Capovilla, Richard Glücks, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. After him are Harry Nyquist, Takeo Kurita, Zoltán Tildy, Alexander Vertinsky, Efim Bogoljubov, and Rezső Seress. Among people deceased in 1970, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 67. Before him are Alfred Newman, Michael Balint, Fritz Bayerlein, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Richard Neutra, and James B. Donovan. After him are Wilhelm Schepmann, Théo Sarapo, Sheng Shicai, Zeki Velidi Togan, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, and Polina Zhemchuzhina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 1,893 out of 18,182. Before him are John Mauchly (1907), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), Don Budge (1915), James B. Donovan (1916), Larry Holmes (1949), and Ashton Kutcher (1978). After him are Steven Soderbergh (1963), William F. Sharpe (1934), Walker Evans (1903), Rosanna Arquette (1959), DJ Khaled (1975), and Hayden White (1928).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Erle Stanley Gardner ranks 177. Before him are Dorothy Parker (1893), Tom Wolfe (1930), Rick Riordan (1964), Philip José Farmer (1918), Jack Vance (1916), and William Carlos Williams (1883). After him are Nicholas Sparks (1965), Gore Vidal (1925), David Woodard (1964), Upton Sinclair (1878), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), and Elizabeth George (1949).

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