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Albert Bigelow Paine

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(1861 - 1937)

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Albert Bigelow Paine (10 July 1861 – 9 April 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse.



Bibliography

The Arkansaw Bear (1898)

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Runaway Bocephus meets Horatio the fiddle-playing bear in the woods and teaches him the rest of his song as they take to the road. This is the first edition, identified by a misprint of T for B at the start of chapter 2. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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The Arkansaw Bear (1902)

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Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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