125 years ago today, 17-July-1889, author Erle Stanley Gardner was born in Massachusetts. He went to Palo Alto High School in California. He got thrown out of law school, so he taught himself the law and passed the California Bar. He practiced law, but spent much of his time writing for the pulp magazines like Black Mask. When he created attorney Perry Mason, Gardner could stop practicing the law. Mason appeared in a series of movies with Warren William in the 1930s, and then the television show with Raymond Burr in the 1950s. The television show is still in syndication.
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