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  Anna Katherine Green
Green was three and she was raised by an older sister who was sixteen.
Green's father was a strong patriarch and the family now included the wives of her two older brothers.
Green wrote poetry, of which her father approved, and wrote secretly her first book of detective fiction, filling notebooks that she hid in her closet for the six years it took to complete the manuscript.
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 Tantor Audio Books : Anna Katharine Green   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As a child, Green was often in the company of her father, a well-known trial lawyer, his attorney friends and chiefs of police as they discussed cases.
Green was born in 1846 in Brooklyn, NY.
Anna Katharine Green lived to the age of 88 and died at her home in Buffalo.
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 Anna Katharine Green -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 in Brooklyn, New York - April 11, 1935 in Buffalo) was an American (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) author.
She was one of the first writers of (Click link for more info and facts about detective fiction) detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father).
Green's first passion was to write romantic verse.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anna_katharine_green.htm   (294 words)

  
 Anna Katharine Green Biography and Summary
During the nineteenth century Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs was an internationally known writer of detective fiction whose works were translated into at least five languages and who was admired by literary critics such as Walter Besant and politicians such...
Anna Katharine Green(November 11, 1846 in Brooklyn, New York – April 11, 1935 in Buffalo) was an American author.She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate...
In the following excerpt, Hayne discusses the historical importance of Green's works in terms of her consolidation of the detective novel and the sensational novel and her contribution to the literary convention of the professional and amateur detective working together to solve a crime.
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 Anna Katharine Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 in Brooklyn, New York – April 11, 1935 in Buffalo) was an American author.
Anna Katharine Green was a very progressive woman for her time.
Works by Anna Katharine Green at Project Gutenberg
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 Amazon.com -zShops: Green, Anna Katharine (1846-1935): The House of the Whispering Pines. With c...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Amazon.com -zShops: Green, Anna Katharine (1846-1935): The House of the Whispering Pines.
Green, Anna Katharine (1846-1935): The House of the Whispering Pines.
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN W AS BORN IN BROOKLYN, and attended Ripley College (for women) in Poultney, Vt. She was winning praise for her verse when her father, a noted trial lawyer, interested her in crime.
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 Famous Women Authors - Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green, the woman in question, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Nov. 11, 1846.
She felt drawn to literature, and yet she was in no hurry either to decide which of the divers literary fields was best suited to her taste and talent, or to see her name in print.
We venture the prediction that the stories written by Anna Katharine Green, by virtue not only of their attractive skill-fulness but also of their perennially interesting subjects, will be read eagerly and with delight when many of the novels of brighter present fame have accumulated dust.
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 Anna Katharine Green - Biography and Works
Anna Katherine Green was born on 11 November 1846 in Brooklyn, New York to parents Catharine Ann Whitney and James Wilson Green, lawyer.
After the success of Leavenworth Green had the confidence to submit her The Defense of the Bride and Other Poems (1882) to publishers though it did not receive the attention her detective novels achieved.
Green maintained a steady income during her prolific career and lived a Victorian life of strong values and morals, often reflected in her works.
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 Green, Anna Katharine Criticism and Essays | FURTHER READING
Essay in which Green discusses why people are interested in crime, what types of crimes and what aspects of crime are found most fascinating, and what motivates criminal behavior.
Maida, Patricia D. Mother of Detective Fiction: The Life and Works of Anna Katharine Green.
Additional coverage of Green's life and career is contained in the following source published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vol.
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 Anna Katharine Green
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GREEN, Anna Katharine, author, born in Brooklyn, New York, 11 November, 1846.
She was graduated at Ripley female College, Poultney, Vermont, in 1867, and in 1857-'60 lived in Buffalo.
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 Green Mountain College --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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U.S. author Anna Katharine Green helped to popularize the detective story in the United States.
Her knowledge of criminal law gave an air of realism to her novels, which outlined many of the formulas that were to characterize the genre of detective fiction.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311511?tocId=9311511   (809 words)

  
 Anna Katharine Green Criticism
In the following essay, Harkins and Johnston focus on Green's literary beginnings, her role as a trailblazer in the genre of detective fiction, and her strengths as a writer.
In the following essay, Woodward recalls her visit with Green in Buffalo, New York, during which the eighty-three-year-old author reflected on the differences between contemporary mystery stories and those written around the time The Leavenworth Case was first published.
In the following excerpt, Haycraft underscores the historical importance of Green's mysteries, particularly The Leavenworth Case, to the detective genre in America.
www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Anna_Katharine_Green   (272 words)

  
 Anna Katharine Green Quotes
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Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
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 In the Library Reviews - Anna Katharine Green Reviews
With elegant settings and eloquent writing, these classic stories are brought to contemporary readers in style.
Author Anna Katharine Green is considered to be the mother of the mystery novel, and this collection of stories showcases her analytical mind as well as her creativity.
All book covers are copyright their respective publishers and are used with permission.
www.inthelibraryreview.com /GreenAnnaKatharine.html   (377 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Anna Katharine Green
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Katherine Anna Green was the first woman detective novelist.
Her connected stories featuting legendary character Violet Strange has been hailed as the first fictional female detective series.
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 Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women: Green, Anna Katharine (biography)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women: Green, Anna Katharine (biography)@ HighBeam Research
Born on November 11, 1846, in Brooklyn, New York, Anna Green grew up and attended public schools there and, from the age of ten, in Buffalo.
She graduated from Ripley Female College (now Green Mountain College) in Poultney, Vermont, in 1866.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28014571&refid=ip_search   (196 words)

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