Albert Bigelow Paine

Albert Bigelow Paine (1861–1937) was an American author and editor, born in Massachusetts and raised in Illinois and Iowa. After early work as a photographic supplies dealer and a writer of children's verse and stories, he joined the staff of St. Nicholas magazine. In 1906 he became Mark Twain's secretary and companion, lived with him for the last four years of his life, and was named his literary executor. His three-volume Mark Twain: A Biography appeared in 1912, followed by editions of Twain's letters, speeches, notebooks and autobiography. Paine also wrote a life of Joan of Arc and a biography of the cartoonist Thomas Nast.