![]() He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith - a parody of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation: the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote more than fifty novels. In his spare time, he began to write for the 'pulp' magazines which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Innovative and restless in his nature, Gardner was frankly bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. His series characters were Perry Mason, Terry Clane, Sheriff Bill Eldon, Doug Selby and Gramps Wiggins. He married Natalie Talbert in 1912 and Agnes Jean Bethell in 1968. ![]() He was admitted to the California bar in 1911. Gardner was born in Massachusetts and educated at Valparaiso University Indiana. Erle Stanley Gardner (JMarch 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the names A.A.
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