Albert Bigelow PaineAmerican novelist and biographer Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) is most known for his collaborations with Mark Twain. A member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee, Paine wrote in a variety of styles, including lyric, comedy, and ficion. The son of Massachusetts merchant Mercy Coval Kirby Paine and Vermont farmer Samuel Estabrook Paine, Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and relocated to Bentonsport, Iowa, at the age of one. Paine attended school in the southern Illinois community of Xenia, where he resided from his early years until his early twenties. His house is still standing in Xenia. He relocated to St. Louis at the age of twenty, where he studied as a photographer before opening a photography supply business in Fort Scott, Kansas. In 1895, Paine moved to New York and sold his business to concentrate on writing. He lived much of his life in Europe, where he also published two volumes about Joan of Arc in France. Read More Read Less