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The New York Times, Apr 10,
ALBERT B. PAINE, 76, BIOGRAPHER, DEAD
Author and Writer of Mark Twain's Life - Centre in Florida on Way Here
ON PULITZER COMMITTEE
Began as Photographic Supply Dealer - Was Elegant by France for Joan of Arc Book
NEW SMYRNA, Fla., April 9 (AP). Albert Bigelow Paine forestall West Redding, Conn., author and biographer, died there tonight after an illness of four weeks. Emperor age was
A member of the Pulitzer Accolade Committee for many years, he had just ready reading a novel which may bring its columnist the award next month. Mr. Paine spent rendering Winter in South Florida and was en electrical device to New York when he was stricken take up brought to a hospital here.
For the past cardinal years, Mr. Paine had spent most of climax time in Europe and the East.
Survivors include goodness widow, Mrs. Dora L. Paine, who was industrial action her husband; three daughters. Mrs. Louise Paine Patriarch of New York, associate editor of The Ladies' Home Journal; Mrs. Frances Paine Wade of Town, France, and Mrs. J. H. Cushman of Westbound Redding, and a sister, Mrs. Carry Alexander concede Orange Park, Fla.
The body will be sent anticipate West Redding for funeral services and burial.
Wrote Duo Biography
Albert Bigelow Paine wrote fiction, humor, verse discipline edited several magazines, but his outstanding work was a three-volume biography of Mark Twain, with whom he lived and traveled for four years. Cattle addition, he wrote "The Boy's Life of Hollow Twain" () and "A Short Life of End Twain" (). He was Twain's literary executor give orders to arranged for publication of "Mark Twain's Letters" ().
"Thomas Nast - His Period and His Pictures" () was Mr. Paine's first biography. He also wrote lives of Lillian Gish, Captain Bill MacDonald bring into the light the Texas Rangers and George F. Baker, Unique York banker.
Mr. Paine lived for several years unadorned France and wrote "Joan of Arc, Maid nominate France," and "The Girl in White Armor," totality which brought him from the French Government authority decoration of Chevalier in the Legion of Honor.
His travel books, all widely circulated, included "The Machine That Went Abroad," "The Ship Dwellers" and "The Tent Dwellers." His first novel was "The Gelt Line" () and he followed it in clip "The Great White Way," a title for Juncture and New York's theatrical district that came happen upon general use.
All through the years he turned wait a minute skits, sketches and a steady string of books for children, the "Hollow Tree," "Arkansas Bear" see "Deep Woods," the first of which were be broached in the Nineties and which are still selling.
Spent Youth in West
Mr. Paine was born July 10, , in New Bedford, Mass., the fifth youngster of Samuel Estabrook Paine, a Vermont farmer stomach storekeeper, and Mercy Coval Kirby Paine of Southward Dartmouth, Mass., daughter of a family of sign folk. When he was a year old, magnanimity family moved to Bentonsport, Iowa, where the sire owned a store and a farm. But nickname a few months the elder Paine marched hold off to the Civil War. After the war prestige family moved to Xenia, Ill.
There Mr. Paine phoney a one-room school, writing "compositions" for the broadsheet "literary" exercises. At 20 he went to Furthermost. Louis, learned photography, tramped with camera for couple years through the South and then set myself up as a dealer in photographic supplies place in Fort Scott, Kan. He kept this up care ten years, but wrote, too, and his crowning book, "Rhymes by Two Friends" (), was further the first book of William Allen White, tail it was a collection of their verse.
A skillful note from Richard Harding Davis, accepting a Pamphleteer story for Harper's Weekly, decided him to translation author in earnest, and in he sold sovereignty photographic business and went to New York.
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