Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (born 1889)

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories. Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.

March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 295 days remain until the end of the year.