Paine Albert BigelowAlbert Bigelow Paine was an American author and biographer who was born on July 10, 1861, and died on April 9, 1937. He is best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine wrote in many different styles, such as poetry, comedy, and fiction. He was on te Pulitzer Prize Committee. Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to a merchant named Mercy Coval Kirby Paine and a farmer named Samuel Estabrook Paine. When he was one, he moved to Bentonsport, Iowa, with his family. Paine went to school in Xenia, a town in southern Illinois where he lived from his early years until he was in his early twenties. His house in Xenia is still there. At age 20, he moved to St. Louis and went to school to learn how to be a photographer. After that, he opened a photography supply store in Fort Scott, Kansas. Paine moved to New York in 1895 and sold his business so he could write full-time. He spent a lot of his life in Europe, where he wrote two books about Joan of Arc. Read More Read Less