{"id":20715,"date":"2023-12-04T03:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20715"},"modified":"2023-11-15T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:05:10","slug":"prolific-authors-14-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/prolific-authors-14-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 14 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2220\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg 512w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>Way back in December of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/prolific-authors\/\">2011<\/a> (and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I\u2019ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books I\u2019ve read through October. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 118 books, so there could be some movement over the past two years, but it\u2019s time to take another look and see if my \u201cfavorite\u201d authors have changed much in that time span.\u00a0 We continue today with the author I&#8217;ve read 14 times, down one from two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erle Stanley Gardner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been aware of Gardner as the creator of Perry Mason for years but had never read any of his work until 2015, when Hard Case Crime released the first of their republishing of his Cool and Lam series, written under the penname A.A. Fair.\u00a0 Since that time, six entries of the series have been released.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20058\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/foolsdie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20058\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20058\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/foolsdie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/foolsdie.jpg 313w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/foolsdie-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fools Die On Friday &#8211; Erle Stanley Gardner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to the new HBO interpretation of <em>Perry Mason<\/em>, six of those books have also been republished, all of which I read between 2020 and 2022.\u00a0 In addition to those, I&#8217;ve stumbled across a few other editions over the years, including the most recent book of his I&#8217;ve read, <em>The Case of the Howling Dog<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4Way back in December of\u00a02011 (and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I\u2019ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7361,5332,5327,2937,4803,10752],"class_list":["post-20715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-a-a-fair","tag-erle-stanley-gardner","tag-hard-case-crime","tag-hbo","tag-perry-mason","tag-the-case-of-the-howling-dog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20849,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715\/revisions\/20849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}