Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Green, Anna Katharine

GREEN, Anna Katharine, author, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 11 Nov., 1846. She was graduated at Ripley female college, Poultney, Vt., in 1867, and in 1857-60 lived in Buffalo. In November, 1884, she married Charles Rohlfs, of Brooklyn. Her novels, all of which are detective stories, include "The Leavenworth Case " (New York, 1878); "A Strange Disappearance " (1879); " The Sword of Damocles " (1881); " X. Y. Z." (1883); " Hand and Ring " (1888); " The Mill Mystery " (1886); and "7 to 13" (1887). She has also published "The Defence of the Bride, and other Poems " (1883), and "Risifi's Daughter," a dramatic poem (1886).