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 .

Complete order of Erle Stanley Gardner books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.

Mar 7, 2025 · Erle Stanley Gardner (born July 17, 1889, Malden, Mass., U.S.—died March 11, 1970, Temecula, Calif.) was an American author and lawyer who wrote nearly 100 detective and mystery novels that sold more than 1,000,000 copies each, making him easily the best-selling American writer of his time.

Dec 29, 2018 · In his heyday, a ten-year-span from roughly 1926 to 1936, he produced and sold an average of one million words of fiction a year, certainly earning his billing as “King of the Woodpulps.” He was best known, of course, for creating …

Erle Stanley Gardner, the prolific pulp fiction writer best known for creating the fictional lawyer Perry Mason; Della Street, Mason's secretary; private detective Paul Drake, Mason's favorite investigator; and Hamilton Burger, the district attorney with the worst won-lost record in the history of fictional jurisprudence, was born in in Malden ...

Erle Stanley Gardner. Lawyer. Born: July 17, 1889; Birthplace: Malden, Massachusetts; Died: March 11, 1970; Place of death: Temecula, California; American novelist. Gardner, a prolific writer of detective fiction, created Perry Mason, one of the most well known and popular fictional lawyers in print and on television.

Mystery writer, Erle Stanley Gardner, made his home on Rancho del Paisano in Temecula from 1937 through his passing in 1970. Gardner is best known for writing Perry Mason novels, the basis for the Perry Mason television show.