A writer was born in the city of Malden Massachusetts graduated from the Palo Alto High School in 1909 and entered the Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana passed the examination of the state commission for the title of lawyer in 1911 In 1917 Gardner opens an attorneys office in Merced California A few years later he moved to work in a sales agency and five years later in 1921 he opened a law firm Sheridan Orr Drapo and Gardner in Ventura California Gardner is gaining popularity with vivid presentations at court trials until 1933 but after the release of his first detective novel The Case of Velvet Claws it is decided to devote himself to the literature entirely Gardner in 1946 founded and until the 1960s was one of the members of the committee The Court of Last Hope a human rights organization to review the death sentences For a documentary about this organization he was awarded the Edgar Poe Award of the American Association of Detective Writers in 1962 in the Grand Master nomination Gardner also deserves to attract public attention by publishing an article in the magazine Life in 1962 to the rock carvings of Lower California some of which were later listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites In addition in 1968 together with Charles Hapgood Gardner participated in the research of the socalled Akambaro figurines later unequivocally recognized as counterfeits of the 20th century In 1968 Gardner married his longtime secretary Agnes Bethel 19022002 who became the prototype of Della Street the secretary of the main literary hero Gardner the lawyer of Perry Mason
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