Albert Paine

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.^[1]

Biography

Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and was moved to Bentonsport, Iowa when one year old. 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 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. 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.^[1]

Paine was married to Dora and had three daughters.^[1]

Bibliography

Partial bibliography of Albert Bigelow Paine:^[1][2]

• Rhymes by Two Friends with William Allen White (1893)
• The Mystery of Evelin Delorme, A Hypnotic Story (1894)
• The Hollow Tree Series:
  • The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book (1898)
  • The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book (1901)
  • Hollow Tree Nights and Days (1915)
• The Arkansas Bear (1898)
• The Bread Line (1900)
• The Great White Way (1901)
• The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (1901)
• Paine Albert Bigelow (1904). Th. Nast: His Period And His Pictures. New York: The MacMillan Company. http://books.google.com/books?id=2BwxAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2009-07-10. 
• A Little Garden Calendar (1905)
• The Tent Dwellers (1908)
• Mark Twain: A Biography, 4 volumes (1912)
• The Boy's Life of Mark Twain (1916)
• 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)
• Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform, a biography of Texas Ranger William Jesse McDonald
• Biography of George Fisher Baker (?)
• The Car That Went Abroad (?)
• The Ship Dwellers (?)
• Deep Woods (?)

References

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Albert Bigelow Paine

• Works by Albert Bigelow Paine at Project Gutenberg
• Full text of Hollow Tree Nights and Days, Harper & Brothers.