John Pell Coster Train (May 25, 1928 – August 13, 2022) was an American investment advisor and writer. He was a founding editor of The Paris Review.
Early life
Train was born on the Upper East Side of Manhattan to Helen Coster Gerard and Arthur Train. His father was a district attorney in New York City and the author of the popular "Ephraim Tutt" stories that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1953, he co-founded and became the first managing editor of The Paris Review, which won attention by publishing extended interviews with such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder and William Faulkner.
Train died on August 13, 2022, at a hospital in Rockport, Maine, aged 94.
Select bibliography
Train wrote several hundred columns in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, London's Financial Times, and other publications. Also, about 25 books, translated into many languages, including:
- Money Masters of Our Time (HarperCollins, )
- Investing and Managing Trusts Under the New Prudent Investor Rule: A Guide for Trustees, Investment Advisors, & Lawyers (Harvard, )
- The Craft of Investing (HarperCollins, )
- The Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett "America's Preeminent Investor" (HarperCollins, )
- Dance of the Money Bees: A Professional Speaks Frankly on Investing (HarperCollins, )
- The Olive: Tree of Civilization (M.T. Train/Scala Books, )
- The Orange: Golden Joy (M.T. Train/Scala Books, )
- Comfort Me With Apples (M.T. Train/Scala Books, )
He has also written several humorous books, including John Train's Most Remarkable Names (which produced two sequels),