Albert Paine
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]
Biography[]
Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the son of Vermont farmer Samuel Estabrook Paine and 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 either lied or committed bigamy by marrying Dora while still married to his first wife.[2]
Selected bibliography[]
- 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)
- Other biographies
- Th. Nast: His Period And His Pictures (1904)[4]
- Captain , Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform (1909)
- Life and Lillian Gish (1932)
- George Fisher Baker, a biography: With illustrations (1938)
- Children's books
- The Arkansaw Bear Series
- The Arkansaw Bear (1898)
- Elsie and the Arkansaw Bear (1909)
- The Hollow Tree Series (illustrated by J. M. Condé):
- The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book (1898)
- The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book (1901)
- Hollow Tree Nights and Days (1915)
- Other children's books
- Gobolinks, or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old (1896)
- Golden Cat (1934)
- Novels
- (1894)
- (1900)
- The Great White Way (1901)
- Travel books
- (1901)
- The Tent Dwellers (1908)
- (1910)
- (1921)
- Other books
- with William Allen White (1893)
- A Little Garden Calendar (1905)
- illustrated by Thomas Fogarty (1919)
- Peanut, The Story of a Boy (1913)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Albert B. Paine, 76, Biographer, Dead." The New York Times 1937-04-10: 19.
- ^ 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 18 June 2021.
- ^ "Mark Twain in His Times Bibliography". Accessed 7 August 2006
- ^ Paine Albert Bigelow (1904). Th. Nast: His Period And His Pictures. New York: The MacMillan Company. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
External links[]
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Wikisource has original works written by or about: Albert Paine |
- Works by Albert Paine at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Albert Bigelow Paine at Internet Archive
- 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
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- 1861 births
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- People from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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- People from Clay County, Illinois
- American children's writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- American humorists
- American travel writers
- American male non-fiction writers