Train, Arthur C.

Train, Arthur C. (Cheney)

(1875–1945) lawyer, author; born in Boston, Mass. Twice assistant district attorney in New York (1901–08), 1913–15), he began publishing his "court stories" in 1904; after 1922 he devoted full time to writing stories, urbane novels, and nonfiction works based on courtroom experiences. His well-loved character, Ephraim Tutt, appeared as lawyer-hero in over eighty stories (1919–45); the fictional Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt (1943) was so convincing that Who's Who asked Tutt to fill out its form.