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Anna Katharine Green

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born

November 11, 1846 in Brooklyn, New York , The United States

died

April 11, 1935

gender

female

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father). Born in Brooklyn, New York, her early ambition was to write romantic verse, and she corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, she produced her first and best known novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878). She became a bestselling author, eventually publishing about 40 books. She was in some ways a progressive woman for her time-succeeding in a genre dominated by male writers-but she did not approve of many of her feminist contemporaries, and she was opposed t...more

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Books by Anna Katharine Green

Average rating: 3.40 · 688 ratings · 168 reviews · 104 distinct works

	The Leavenworth Case 3.42 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1878 — 63 editions	My rating:
	The House of the Whispering Pines 3.02 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1910 — 33 editions	My rating:
	A Strange Disappearance 3.50 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1880 — 40 editions	My rating:
	That Affair Next Door 3.67 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1897 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green, Arthur I. Keller (Illustrator) 3.26 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1906 — 22 editions	My rating:
	The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1915 — 41 editions	My rating:
	The House in the Mist 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1905 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Millionaire Baby 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1905 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Circular Study 2.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1900 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Initials Only 3.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1911 — 20 editions	My rating:

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Series by Anna Katharine Green

Mr. Gryce (13 books)
by Anna Katharine Green

3.40 avg rating — 364 ratings

Caleb Sweetwater (3 books)
by Anna Katharine Green

3.09 avg rating — 116 ratings

Amelia Butterworth (3 books)
by Anna Katharine Green

3.45 avg rating — 76 ratings

Quotes by Anna Katharine Green

“Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.”
― Anna Katharine Green, That Affair Next Door

tags: adventures , humor

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