Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 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, humor, and verse.[1]
Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the son of Vermont farmer Samuel Estabrook Paine and Massachusetts shopkeeper Mercy Coval Kirby Paine, and was moved to Bentonsport, Iowa when he was one year old. From early childhood until early adulthood, Paine lived in the village of Xenia in southern Illinois; here he received his schooling. His home in Xenia is still standing. At the age of twenty, he moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. Paine sold out in 1895 to become a full-time writer, moving to New York. He spent most of his life in Europe, including France, where he wrote two books about Joan of Arc. The works were so well received in France that he was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur by the French government.[1]
Paine was married to Dora Locey and had three daughters.[1] Max McCoy in his "Biographer Obscura: The Secret Life of Albert Bigelow Paine" (in Mark Twain Journal Vol. 56, No. 1 [Spring 2018], pp. 249–267) claims Paine was earlier married to Minnie Schultz, and he either lied or committed bigamy by marrying Dora while still married to his first wife.[2]
^McCoy, Max. “Biographer Obscura: The Secret Life of Albert Bigelow Paine.” Mark Twain Journal, vol. 56, no. 1, 2018, pp. 249–267. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/45173268. Accessed June 18, 2021.
^"Mark Twain in His Times Bibliography". Accessed August 7, 2006
^Paine Albert Bigelow (1904). Th. Nast: His Period And His Pictures. New York: The MacMillan Company. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
Works by Albert Paine at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Full text of Hollow Tree Nights and Days, Harper & Brothers.
Gobolinks, or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old （1896. From the collections at the Library of Congress
February 21, 2023
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