Armitage Trail
Armitage Trail , real name Maurice Coons (* 1902 , † October 10, 1930 in Los Angeles ) was an American writer and screenwriter.
Trail began writing detective stories for various magazines at the age of 16. His best-known work is the novel Scarface , which has been filmed several times.
Trail died of a heart attack in 1930 at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles.
Web links
- Literature by and about Armitage Trail in the catalog of the German National Library
- Scarface in the 2012 version by Christian De Metter
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trail, Armitage |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maurice Coons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1902 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1930 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |