The Myth of Ephraim Tutt: Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax

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A. N. Marquis Company Publishers, 153–55 Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 14 Albany Institute of History and Art, 172 Amazing Mr. Tutt, The (radio play), 116,153 American Bar Association Journal: review of Yankee Lawyer, 73–74, 107–8 American Foundation for the Blind, 207 American, 17 American Red Cross, 119, 128, 129 Amityville Horror, The (Anson), 91 Anson, Jay: The Amityville Horror, 91 Armed Services Editions, 121–29, 134, 136–37 Authors’ League of America, 14 Beekman, Althea, 61–62 Benet, Stephen Vincent, 124, 147 Berkley Daily Gazette: review of Yankee Lawyer , 84 Bickerstaff, Isaac, 88 Black River Academy, 36 “Black Salmon” (Train), 34 Blake, Catherine K., 12 Blake, Dr. Joseph A., 12 Blind Goddess, The (Train), 29 Bond, Marshall, 16 Book-of-the-Month Club, 90 Bradbury, Ray, 17 Branden, George, 176 Bridges, Robert, 18 Broadway: and play about Tutt, 148–52 Bromhall, J. D., 90–91 Brown, Arthur William, 33, 43, 141–43, 219 Bunyan, Paul, 2, 36, 41, 72, 199, 200 “C.Q.” or, in the Wireless House (Train), 12– 14, 19 Camacho, Manuel Avila, 175 CBS Radio, 153 Charles Scribner’s Sons, 17, 94, 163, 212–13, 217, 219; and fraud lawsuit, 172–73, 178– 94; receipt of letters after Train’s death, 203–11; vie ws on Tutt’s Who’s Who application , 153–55 Chicago Daily Tribune: review of Yankee Lawyer, 82–83 Choate, Joseph, 55 Christie, Agatha, 17 Cigar Institute of America, 140, 144–45 Citizens Committee for the Army and Navy, Inc., 128 CJ (Chief Justice), 57–58, 224 CJ IV, 69 Collier, Bob, 59 Collier’s, 17, 59 Index Page numbers in italics refer to figures. 256 / I ndex Columbia Law School, 214 Connett, Eugene, 146 Coolidge, Calvin: childhood friend of Tutt, 46, 166; P erkins as editor of, 18 Cosmopolitan, 17 Council on Books in Wartime, 120–21, 123, 127–28 Courts, Criminals and the Camorra (Train), 19 Cradle of the Deep (Lowell), 89–90, 93, 163 Crocedoro, Tomasso, 23–26 Crocker, “Boss,” 53 Crockett, Davy, 89 Daniels, Bebe, 29 Darrow, Clarence, 59 Davis Polk & Wardwell, 183 Davis, John W., 183–85 Davis, o wen: Mr. Tutt Comes Home, 148–52 Davis, Richard Harding, 59 Delafield, Lewis L., 11 Derrydale Press, 146–47 Dietrich, Noah, 190–91 District Attorney’s o ffice of New york County: Train’s employment by, 11–12, 18, 132 Dr. Phil, 160 Earthquake, The (Train), 20 Embree, William, 131 Everybody’s, 17 Farr, Esther, 116 ; background, 43, 50–52, 68– 69, 226; fans of, 106–7, 205 Farr, Richard, 51 Fash, Elizabeth, 213 Fawcett, George, 29 Fedderman, Kip, 109 Fennelly, Parker, 152 Fireside Book of Fishing, 147 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 17, 142; r elationship with Maxwell Perkins, 18, 19 Frankenstein, 158, 164 Frey, James: A Million Little Pieces, 4, 91– 93, 159–64, 168; and settlement of fraud lawsuit, 189, 192–93; v alue placed on truth, 193 From the District Attorney’s Office (Train), 35 Gardiner, Asa Bird, 10–11, 53 Gerard, Helen Coster, 16 Goldfish, The (Train), 19 Gordon, Max, 148, 152 Great Depression, 2, 37, 147, 174, 200, 202,222 Hand, Learned, 215 Hartford Courant: review of Yankee Lawyer , 85 Harum, David, 36 Harvard Law Review: review of Yankee Lawyer , 77–78 Harvard Law School: and failure to include Tutt in Quinquennial Catalogue, 74; Train’s education, 9; Tutt’s education, 48 Harvard University: Train’s education, 9; Tutt’s education, 46–47 Hatch, J. D., 172 Hays, Arthur Garfield, 74 Hemingway, Ernest, 18, 147 Hermit of Turkey Hollow, The (Train), 50 Hillyer, Ethel, 214 His Children’s Children (Train), 28 HLH. See Hotchkiss, Levy & Hogan Hoax, The, 90 hoaxes, 88–93.See also literary hoaxes Holahan, Katy, 61 Holmes, o liver Wendell, 67, 84, 124 Holmes, Sherlock, 3, 73, 82, 86, 165 Hotchkiss, Levy & Hogan (HLH), 55–56 Hughes, “Helga,” 190 Hughes, Howard R., 90, 162, 189–93 “Human Element, The” (Train) 26, 54 Huston, Walter, 149–50 Illusion (Train), 29 Irving, Clifford: criminal conviction of, 189– 91; description of hoax, 90, 92, 162–64; impact of hoax, 193–94 Irving, Edith, 191 Index / 257 Jerome, William Travers, 131 Kissam, Ethel, 9–10 Kurnitz, Henry, 152 Lawyers Guild Review: review of Yankee Lawyer , 74–75 Lewis R. Linet Award, 175 Lewis, Sinclair, 17 Lincoln, Abraham, 7; Tutt compared to, 208 Linet, Lewis, 115, 173–94; par ticipation in fraud lawsuit, 177–94; personal background , 173–77 Linet v. Train, et al...