{"id":23050,"date":"2025-11-03T03:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23050"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:44:58","slug":"prolific-authors-fourteen-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/prolific-authors-fourteen-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 Fourteen Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\"><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\" \/><\/a>It is time once again to take a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, I\u2019m once again on pace to set a new record for books read in a year, so I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books I\u2019ve read through August of this year. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 114 books, so there should be some movement over the past two years.\u00a0 Without further ado, it\u2019s time to take another look and see if my \u201cfavorite\u201d authors have changed much over the years.\u00a0 We continue today with the sole author I\u2019ve read fourteen times, although under two names.<\/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_17652\" style=\"width: 338px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lonelyheiress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17652\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17652\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lonelyheiress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lonelyheiress.jpg 328w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lonelyheiress-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erle Stanley Gardner &#8211; The Case of the Lonely Heiress<\/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. In addition to those, I\u2019ve stumbled across a few other editions over the years, including the most recent book of his I\u2019ve read, <em>The Case of the Howling Dog<\/em>.\u00a0 Since HBO cancelled the show after two seasons, I may be stuck with the earlier editions of the remaining books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time once again to take a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, I\u2019m once again on pace to set a new record for books read in a year, so I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books [&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-23050","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\/23050","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=23050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23300,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23050\/revisions\/23300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}