Armitage Trail

Maurice R. Coons, who adopted the pen name Armitage Trail, cultivated his writing skills at Patterson High School in New York, winning a statewide essay contest before abandoning formal education to edit the Patterson Tribune and produce pulp crime stories under assorted aliases. Relocating to Chicago, he drafted the novel that would become Scarface, a fictionalized account of gangster Al Capone,… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources