Background
Anna Green Rohlfs was born on November 11, 1846 in Brooklyn, in the family of James Wilson and Katherine Ann (Whitney) Green.
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Anna Green Rohlfs was born on November 11, 1846 in Brooklyn, in the family of James Wilson and Katherine Ann (Whitney) Green.
In 1867 Anna received Bachelor of Arts at Ripley Female College in Poultney, Vermont, United States.
Anna's love of Edgar Allan Poe’s mysteries, coupled with her fascination with her father’s defense cases, inspired her to begin writing her own mystery. Published in 1878, "The Leavenworth Case" was immediately relished by its readers, who bought more than half a million copies of the book that many credit with creating the popular mystery genre.
Because of the immediate success of "The Leavenworth Case", Green thereafter concentrated her literary efforts on the mystery genre, although she did publish at least one volume of poetry.
Although Green produced some thirty detective novels and was widely read, her popularity waned at the turn of the century, as her Victorian mores and language became viewed as archaic. Still, her influence, critics noted, lives on in the works of today’s masters of mystery.
On November 25, 1884, Green married the actor and stove designer, and later noted furniture maker, Charles Rohlfs, who was seven years her junior. Together they had one daughter and two sons: Rosamund Rohlfs, Roland Rohlfs, and Sterling Rohlfs. Her daughter Rosamund married Robert Twitty Palmer.
