Anna Katharine Green

Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1846 and died in 1935. In 1878 he published his first crime story, The Leavenworth Case, which was immediately successful. Having been one of the first women to write detective novels, Green marked the genre with characteristics that would influence authors such as Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle and is today nicknamed the "grandmother of the detective novel". With a work of more than forty titles, books such as The Affair Next Door (1897), where he introduces the nosy spinster Amelia Butterworth, considered the precursor of Miss Marple, or The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange (1915), a set of detective tales centered on her who was one of the first women to perform the functions of a private detective in American literature.