Anna Katharine Green

The Leavenworth Case

originally published:
New York
1878

awards:

  • First Book(1878)
  • Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone(1878)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 11/11/1846
died: 4/11/1935
born as: Anna Katharine Green

Brooklyn-born "mother of the detective story" who created, introduced or popularized many standard genre devices such as the crime-scene map, deductions-list, and interlineation of newspaper headlines.

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