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| Born | November 11, 1846 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | April 11, 1935 (aged 88) Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | poetry, detective fiction |
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| Children | 3, including Roland |
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Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 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.[1] Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel".[2]
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[Green] is frequently, inaccurately, described as the mother of the detective novel by virtue of having written The Leavenworth Case, which is said to be the first mystery written by an American woman. But the honor rightfully belongs to Seeley Regester [1831-1885], with her 1866 novel The Dead Letter.