Anna Katharine Green (M Charles Rohlfs)An American poet and novelist named Anna Katharine Green lived from November 11, 1846, until April 11, 1935. She made a name for herself as one of America's earliest detective fiction authors by crafting carefully thought-out, factually accurate tale. "The mother of the detective novel," according to Green On November 11, 1846, Green was born in Brooklyn, New York. She communicated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and had a young aspiration to write a love poem. She wrote The Leavenworth Case (1878), her first and best-known novel after her poems failed to find an audience. Wilkie Collins complimented it, and it became the year's biggest hit. After writing 37 books over the course of 40 years, she eventually achieved bestseller status. Green wed Charles Rohlfs, an actor and stove designer who would eventually become a well-known furniture builder, on November 25, 1884. (1853 - 1936). Green's The Leavenworth Case was dramatized, and Rohlfs performed it on the road. He turned to making furniture in 1897 after his stage career failed, and Green worked with him on some of his ideas. Rosamund Rohlfs, Roland Rohlfs, and Sterling Rohlfs were their three children together. At the age of 88, Green passed away in Buffalo, New York, on April 11, 1935. Read More Read Less