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Gardner, Erle Stanley
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who worked across the continent, and Erle Stanley Gardner grew up in places as far apart as Yukon, Oregon and California. He attended Palo Alto High School until 1909 and then Valparaiso University, Indiana. He was a keen boxer as a young man, and some legal complications...
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Hanshew, T.W.
An American author, journalist and actor, born in Brooklyn, New York. Not much is known about his private life and early years, but it has been discovered that Thomas W. Hanshew already as a 16-year-old had a job in a theatre company where he was given small supporting roles. Later he even got some bigger roles, though without making much of an impression. When he was about 20, he started...