Armitage Trail
Sign in to saveAmerican crime writer (1902–1930)
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- Works
- 3
Top works
- Scarface
- Thirteenth Guest
- Scarface
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Madison, Nebraska, USA
Maurice R. Coons (July 18, 1902 – October 10, 1930), known by the pen name Armitage Trail, was an American pulp fiction author, known best for his 1929 novel Scarface. This novel was based on the life of gangster Al Capone, and was adapted as the 1932 film Scarface directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes. The story was later modernized and remade in the 1983 film Scarface directed…
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maurice
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Madison
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1902-07-18
- date of death
- 1930-10-10
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- birth name
- Maurice R. Coons
- place of burial
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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