July 10, 1861

Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 to April 9, 1937) is not remembered mainly for his children's books, like the following. Golden Cat was published in 1934.

Nor is it common knowledge that Albert Bigelow Paine is the source of the phrase: "the great white way." He used it not though,  for a river of electric light in New York City.  Paine's The Great White Way, was a novel about a lost world located in the Antarctic. You can read it here, by the way.
His New York Times obit states memorable aspects of Paine's career:

The New York Times, April 10, 1937
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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 75.

A member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee for many years,...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. ....

Albert Bigelow Paine wrote fiction, humor, verse and edited several magazines, but his outstanding work was a three-volume biography of Mark Twain, [1912] with whom he lived and traveled for four years....He was Twain's literary executor and arranged for publication of "Mark Twain's Letters" (1917).