Arthur Train

Arthur Cheney Train (6 September 1875 - 22 December 1945) was an American lawyer and legal thriller writer, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr Ephraim Tutt.

Life

Train was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was politician and lawyer Charles Russell Train and his mother, Sara Maria Cheney. Train graduated BA from Harvard University in 1896 and LLB from Harvard Law School in 1899.Schmid (1999)]

In 1897, Train married Ethel Kissam and they had four children. Ethel died in 1923 and Train married Helen Coster Gerard with whom he had one child.

In January 1901, Train became assistant in the office of the New York District Attorney and in 1904 he started his literary career with the publication of the short story "The Maximilian Diamond" in "Leslie's Monthly". He spent the next decade running the two careers in parallel.

From 1915 to 1922, Train was in private practice as a lawyer with Charles Albert Perkins while continuing to write, not just novels but advertising copy, vaudeville sketch comedy, poetry and journalism. In 1919, he created the popular character of Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wiley old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law's injustices. He also coauthored two science fiction novels with eminent physicist Robert W. Wood. [Train & Wood (1915), (1916)] After 1922, Train devoted himself to writing,

References

Bibliography

By Train

* cite book | author=Train, A. C. | year=1905 | title=McAllister and his Double | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
* cite book | author=— | origyear=1908 | title=True Stories of Crime from the District Attorney's Office | id=ISBN 1406810711 | year=2006 | publisher=Echo Library
* cite book | author=— | year=1912 | title=Courts, Criminals and the Camorra | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
* cite book | author=— | origyear=1919 | title=Tutt and Mr. Tutt | id=ISBN 1598186647 | publisher=Alan Rodgers Books | year=2005
* cite book | author=— | year=1923a | title=His Children's Children | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
* cite book | author=— | year=1923b | title=Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
* cite book | author=— | year=1926 | title=Page Mr. Tutt | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
* cite book | author=— | origyear=1928 | title=Ambition | year=2005 | id=ISBN 1417934050 | publisher=Kessinger Publishing
* cite book | author=— | year=1930 | title=The Adventures of Ephraim Tutt, Attorney and Counsellor-at-law | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
* cite book | author=— | year=1937 | title=Mr Tutt's Case Book Being a Collection of His Most Celebrated Trials as Reported and Compiled | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
*— (1939) "My Day in Court", New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
* cite book | author=— | year=1943 | title=Yankee lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
* cite book | author=— | year=1945 | title=Mr. Tutt Finds a Way | publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons | location=New York
* cite book | author=— | year=1988 | origyear-1961 | title=Mr. Tutt at his Best: A Collection of his Most Famous Cases | id=ISBN 0766197271 | publisher=Kessinger Publishing
* cite book | author=— | year=2005 | title=True Stories of Celebrated Crimes from the District Attorney's Office | id=ISBN 0766197271 | publisher=Kessinger Publishing
* cite book | author=Train, A. C. & Wood, R. W. | title=The Man Who Rocked the Earth | location=Garden City | publisher=Doubleday, Page & Co. | year=1915
* cite book | author=— | title=The Moon Maker | location=Garden City | publisher=Doubleday, Page & Co. | year=1916

Obituary

*"New York Times", 23 December 1945

About Train

*Schmid, D. (1999) "Train, Arthur", "American National Biography", Oxford University Press, 21: 799-800, ISBN 0-19-520635-5
*Train, A. C. (1939) "My Day in Court", New York: Charles Scribner's Sons