Ms. Green Bio

Anna Katherine Green was born November 11, 1846 in Brooklyn, New York to Catharine Ann Whitney and James Wilson Green, an attorney. She attended college in Vermont and returned to New York to engage in a life-long writing career. Her first novel, The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer’s Story was probably heavily influenced by her father’s career. The novel uses such plot devised as expert testimony, medical inquiry and ballistics reports. She is a noted friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and is said to have influenced Agatha Christie. She married a world-renowned furniture designer and had a daughter and son, Sterling.