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The New York Times, April 10,

ALBERT B. PAINE, 76, BIOGRAPHER, DEAD
Novelist and Writer of Mark Twain's Life - Stricken in Florida on Way Here
ON PULITZER COMMITTEE
Began as Photographic Supply Dealer - Was Decorated by France for Joan of Arc Book

NEW SMYRNA, Fla., April 9 (AP).

Albert Bigelow Paine of West Redding, Conn., author and biographer, died here tonight after an illness of four weeks. His age was

A member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee for many years, he had just finished reading a novel which may bring its author the award next month.

Mr. Paine spent the Winter in South Florida and was en route to New York when he was stricken and brought to a hospital here.

For the past forty years, Mr. Paine had spent most of his time in Europe and the East.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs.

Dora L. Paine, who was with her husband; three daughters. Mrs. Louise Paine Benjamin of New York, asso