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Suffering Mark Twain asked to be killed, letter shows
; ...chronic heart ailment. The manager, Albert Bigelow Paine, traveled with Twain on the S.S...expected him to die any moment," wrote Paine. "We never left him alone. At times...see. He begged me to kill him." Paine also wrote that he kept Twain...
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The War Prayer.
; ...his publisher, and was found after his death among his unpublished manuscripts. It was first published in 1923 in Albert Bigelow Paine's anthology, Europe and Elsewhere. ...The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy...
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The Bard from Hannibal; The creator of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and much of America's literary tradition also created himself.
; ...the subject of many books but few major biographies. Albert Bigelow Paine's dated but still valuable three-volume Mark Twain: A Biography (1912) was the only "authorized" one. Paine, Twain's literary executor, also cobbled together an...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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The dream theme
; ...Everywhere was life - a pageant of happy people." Albert Bigelow Paine, "The New Coney Island," 1904. Swooping through the...in the amusement business for more than a century (Alberto Zamperla, the president, is third generation in the...
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(book reviews)
; ...of Mark Twain produced by Justin Kaplan and Hamlin Hill, themselves corrective of earlier accounts (especially Albert Bigelow Paine's) have been supplemented by two detailed examinations of specific subjects Kaplan and Hill treated less fully...
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'MARK TWAIN'; Wit, Genius and Personal Loss
; ...freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' " -- Mark Twain, quoted in "Mark Twain: A Biography" by Albert Bigelow Paine, 1910 Twain was not, as he joked, an "unaccountable freak," although he did die a month before Halley's comet streaked...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Lighting Out for the Territory.
; ...already begun. His first biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, lived with Twain towards the end...autobiographical musings with a stenograph. Paine's life, half a million words of...then, like many a later Twainiac, Paine began to make a full-time career...
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Inventing Mark Twain.
; ...already begun. His first biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, lived with Twain towards the end...autobiographical musings with a stenograph. Paine's life, half a million words of...then, like many a later Twainiac, Paine began to make a full-time career...
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Mark Twain: The rebel with a cause
; ...dictated by the man in 1904. It was found after his death from amongst his unpublished manuscripts. First published in Albert Bigelow Paine's Europe And Elsewhere anthology in 1923, it is 12 paragraphs long. While sounding like support for war, it was...
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Mark Twain Dies
; ...her husband, Dr. Robert Halsey, Dr. Quintard, Albert Bigelow Paine, who will write Mark Twain's biography and is his...persisted. On the way up from Bermuda he said to Albert Bigelow Paine, who had been his constant companion in illness...
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