Editing Anna Katharine Green (section)

==Life and work==
Green was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]] on November 11, 1846.<ref name=obit/> She had an early ambition to write romantic verse and corresponded with [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]. When her poetry failed to gain recognition, she produced her first and best known novel, ''[[The Leavenworth Case]]'' (1878), praised by [[Wilkie Collins]], and the hit of the year. She became a [[Bestseller|bestselling]] author, eventually publishing 37 books over 40 years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sussex |first=Lucy |title= Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre |location= New York |publisher= Palgrave McMillan |date= 2010}}</ref>

On November 25, 1884, Green married the actor and stove designer, and later noted furniture maker, [[Charles Rohlfs]] (1853 – 1936).<ref>{{cite news| work=[[The New York Times]] | date= July 1, 1936 | url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/07/01/87955749.pdf |title= Charles Rohlfs, Designer, is Dead |quote=Manufacturer, 83, Is Credited With Having Originated Mission Furniture. Began Career on Stage. Starred in Mystery Drama Taken From Novel by Wife Anna Katharine Green }}</ref> Rohlfs toured in a dramatization of Green's ''The Leavenworth Case''. After his theater career faltered, he became a furniture maker in 1897, and Green collaborated with him on some of his designs. Together they had one daughter and two sons: Rosamund Rohlfs, [[Roland Rohlfs]], and Sterling Rohlfs.  Her daughter Rosamund married Robert Twitty Palmer.{{cn|date=July 2021}}

Green died on April 11, 1935, in [[Buffalo, New York]], at the age of 88.<ref name=obit>{{cite book |title=A. K. Green Dies |date=April 12, 1935 |newspaper=The New York Times |quote=Noted Author, 88. 'The Leavenworth Case' in '78 Followed by 36 Other Books. Wife of Charles Rohlfs. Wanted to Write Poetry. Wrote Detective Stories to Draw Attention to Her Verse. Changed Mystery Fiction  | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/04/12/110044195.pdf }}</ref> Her husband died the following year.