Albert Bigelow Paine (10 July 1861 – 9 April 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse.

Biography

Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and moved to Bentonsport, Iowa at the age of 1. He later moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. Paine sold up in 1895 to become a full-time writer, moving to New York. He spent most of his life living in Europe, including a time in France where he wrote two books about Joan of Arc. This work was so well received in France that he was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur by the French government.

Paine wrote several children's books, the first of which was published in 1898. He went on to write about his travelling adventures, including The Tent Dwellers, written about a trout fishing trip to Nova Scotia. His 1901 book The Great White Way written about the Arctic indirectly gave New York City's Broadway the name "Great White Way

He was the official biographer and literary executor for Mark Twain, and worked with him (and on his behalf after his death) on various projects. His work on Twain's unfinished story The Mysterious Stranger saw him combine three versions of the story into one.

Paine was married to Dora and had three daughters.

Bibliography

Partial bibliography of Albert Bigelow Paine:

• Rhymes by Two Friends with William Allen White (1893)
• The Mystery of Evelin Delorme, A Hypnotic Story (1894)
• The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book (1898)
• The Arkansas Bear (1898)
• The Bread Line (1900)
• The Great White Way (1901)
• The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book (1901)
• Thomas Nast - His Period and His Pictures (1904) – biography of Thomas Nast
• A Little Garden Calendar (1905)
• The Tent Dwellers (1908)
• Hollow Tree Nights and Days (1915)
• The Boy's Life of Mark Twain (1916)
• Mark Twain: A Biography, 3 volumes (1917)
• Mark Twain's Letters, 2 volumes (editor, 1917)
• A Short Life of Mark Twain (1920)
• Mark Twain's Speeches (editor, 1923)
• Life and Lillian Gish (1932) – biography of Lillian Gish
• Golden Cat (1934)
• Biography of Captain Bill MacDonald (?)
• Biography of George Fisher Baker (?)
• The Car That Went Abroad (?)
• The Ship Dwellers (?)
• Deep Woods (?)

References

External links

• Works by Albert Bigelow Paine at Project Gutenberg