Educated at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Train became a lawyer and subsequently an assistant district attorney of New York county. He began to write short stories and published his first book, McAllister and His Double, in 1905. He invented the character of the tenacious Vermont lawyer, Ephraim Tutt, who appeared in many of his novels and stories. By the 1920's, Train had abandoned his law practice to concentrate full-time on writing. In 1924 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters, becoming its president in 1945 shortly before his death from cancer. In addition to his many novels and works of fiction and non-fiction, Train collaborated with Robert Williams Wood on some science fiction including The Moon Maker and The Man Who Rocked the World. His works include Prisoner at the Bar (1906), The Lost Stradivarius (1908), Butler's Story (1909), Jury System: Defects and Proposed Remedies (1910), The Confessions of Artemus Quibble (1911), Earthquake (1918), Tutt & Mr. Tutt (1920), By Advice of Counsel (1921), Courts and Criminals (1922), True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office (1924), Page Mr. Tutt (1926), Jacob's Ladder (1935), Manhattan Murder (1936), From the District Attorney's Office (1939) and Yankee Lawyer (1943). |
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