The life experience of Earl Stanley GardnerGardner, 1889, was born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer. He traveled with his parents in his early years, studied at Valparaiso

The life experience of Earl Stanley GardnerGardner, 1889, was born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer. He traveled with his parents in his early years, studied at Valparaiso University in Indiana, dropped out of school, and soon settled in California, where he worked as a typist in a law firm. In 1911, he was admitted as a lawyer in this state and began to defend poor Asians (including Chinese) and Mexicans (Mexico) in court. Throughout his life, he sympathized with those who were falsely accused and had no relatives or friends, and he specialized in helping innocent people in prison and standing up for them. On the one hand, he worked as a lawyer, and on the other hand, he started writing for his newspaper, correctly exposing the inside story of the American courts. Until 1932, in addition to working as a lawyer two days a week, he could write 200,000 words of work every month. After the success of the Grafting Case (translated as the Velvet Claw Case, 1933) and the Love Girl Case (1933), he completely left the legal profession and became a professional writer. Later, he published 85 Mason detective novels. His second series was a detective novel featuring District Attorney Douglas Selby. The third series of works is about the mysterious story of private detective Kurt and jurist Ram. He has also written nonfiction about the California Peninsula and the Court of Final Appeal. Gardner died in 1970 at the age of 81.