M. C. Gardner is a playwright, biographer, and cultural essayist.The Man From Lloyd's is the title of Gardner's T.S. Eliot play. His Elvis play is called A Presley Passion. The Man From Lloyd's concerns itself with the dynamic between the T.S. Eliot and his first wife, Vivenne Haigh-Wood and their relationship with Bertrand Russell. A Presley Passion considers the relationship between Elvis and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Both plays use music and lyric to develop their respective themes and characters. The Man From Lloyd's features the songs of Eliot's contemporary, Al Jolson. A Presley Passion features the Presley song book. Gardner's first book Buddha Boogie: The Tautological Paradigm is a structural analysis of Western thought and Eastern scripture. It demonstrates a nexus between the Jewish Tanakh, Vedanta's Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita and Hua-Yen Buddhism's Gandavyuha Sutra and the 7th century's Chinese Patriarchs, Dushun and Fazang, dilations of its tautologies. Gardner's 2 Volume Compendium on Walt Whitman, Whitman's Code: A New Bible is being published by Patcheny Press. Volume I was published in July 2013 and is available on Amazon.com.