Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr.īorn in Malden, Massachusetts, Gardner graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1909, and received his only formal legal education at Valparaiso University School of Law in the state of Indiana. Erle Stanley Gardner (J– March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories, best known for the Perry Mason series, he also published under the pseudonyms A.A.
