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• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) a biography and bibliography (Harper & Brothers, 1919), by Don C. Seitz and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dan. Marble ; a biographical sketch of that famous and diverting humorist, with reminiscences, comicalities, anecdotes, etc., etc. (Dewitt & Davenport, 1851), by Falconbridge, Robert Craighead, Nathaniel Orr, Samuel Wallin, William Croome, Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books, and De Witt & Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• The people I've smiled with; recollections of a merry little life (Cassell publishing company, 1886), by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short life of Mark Twain (Garden City Pub. Co., 1920), by Albert Bigelow Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (P.F. Collier, 1925), by Mark Twain and Albert Bigelow Paine (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) a biography and bibliography (Harper & Brothers, 1919), by Don C. Seitz and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at marktwainproject.org)
• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Letters (Harper & Brothers, 1917), by Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine, and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Kings of the Platform and Pulpit (Chicago et al.: The Werner Co., 1896), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life as a small boy (Simon and Schuster, 1961), by Wally Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wise, witty, eloquent kings of the platform and pulpit (Werner Co., 1893), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
• My favorite lectures of long ago, for friends who remember. ([The Case, Lockwood & Brainard co.,Hartford, Conn., printers], 1898), by Kate Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten wise men, and some more (Atwell Printing and Binding Co., 1909), by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous funny fellows : Brief biographical sketches of American humorists, by William Montgomery Clemens (Gutenberg ebook)

• Irvin Cobb, His Book:: Friendly Tributes upon the Occasion of a Dinner Tendered to Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April Twenty-Fifth, MCMXV (Gutenberg ebook)