1889 - 1970
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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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.
1889 - 1975
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 1,480
1883 - 1963
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 1,481
1758 - 1838
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 1,482
1861 - 1925
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 1,483
1897 - 1961
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,484
1929 - 2008
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,485
1889 - 1970
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,486
1901 - 1979
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 1,487
1555 - 1628
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 1,488
1884 - 1966
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 1,489
1079 - 1153
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 1,490
1826 - 1889
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 1,491
1180 - 1215
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 1,492
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.
1889 - 1944
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 55
1889 - 1978
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 56
1889 - 2006
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 57
1889 - 1945
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 58
1889 - 1975
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 59
1889 - 1943
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 60
1889 - 1970
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 61
1889 - 1976
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 62
1889 - 1977
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 63
1889 - 1961
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 64
1889 - 1957
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 65
1889 - 1952
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 66
1889 - 1968
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 67
1900 - 1970
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 61
1896 - 1970
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 62
1899 - 1970
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 63
1888 - 1970
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 64
1892 - 1970
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 65
1916 - 1970
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 66
1889 - 1970
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 67
1894 - 1970
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 68
1936 - 1970
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 69
1895 - 1970
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 70
1890 - 1970
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 71
1896 - 1970
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 72
1897 - 1970
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 73
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).
1907 - 1980
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,887
1868 - 1963
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 1,888
1915 - 2000
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 1,889
1916 - 1970
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 1,890
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,891
1978 - Present
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,892
1889 - 1970
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,893
1963 - Present
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 1,894
1934 - Present
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 1,895
1903 - 1975
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 1,896
1959 - Present
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 1,897
1975 - Present
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 1,898
1928 - 2018
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 1,899
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).
1893 - 1967
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 171
1930 - 2018
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 172
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 173
1918 - 2009
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 174
1916 - 2013
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 175
1883 - 1963
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 176
1889 - 1970
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 177
1965 - Present
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 178
1925 - 2012
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 179
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 180
1878 - 1968
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 181
1930 - 1999
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 182
1949 - Present
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 183