Max McCoy presented a paper on Paine's past and apparent bigamy in a paper presented in November 2015 at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). McCoy has been engaged in researching this aspect of Paine's life for a number of years and in this paper revealed how he discovered the news about Paine's first wife, divorce, and how it inspired him to write his novel _Jesse_ (1999) which features Mark Twain and the outlaw Jesse James. McCoy's paper in pdf format presented to SAMLA is online. A short URL is: http://tinyurl.com/gla3tny If that link does not work, try a google search for "Albert Bigelow Paine" + Minnie The title of McCoy's paper is "The Lie is Eternal" Barb