Name Douglas Greene Role Author | Awards The Ellery Queen Award | |
Books John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles, Bibliographia Oziana, W. W. Denslow Nominations Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical, Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction People also search for John Dickson Carr, Michael Patrick Hearn, Peter E. Hanff | ||
Douglas G. Greene (born 1944) is an American historian, editor, and author. He is married to Sandi Greene with whom he has a son, Eric and a daughter, Katherine, and has an identical twin, David L. Greene, and a younger brother Paul.
Greene is Emeritus Professor of History at Old Dominion University, specialising in Tudor and Stuart Britain. He is a Charter Member of The International Wizard of Oz Club, founded in 1957, and he was a frequent contributor to The Baum Bugle. He is co-author of a biography of Oz illustrator W. W. Denslow and co-editor of stories and poems by Oz author Ruth Plumly Thompson. He is co-owner and editor of Mystery publisher Crippen & Landru, and has edited numerous Mystery fiction collections for both his own and other publishing houses. In 2014, the non-fiction anthology Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene was released to celebrate his 70th birthday, with ten Edgar Award winning or nominated authors among those contributing. Greene's biography John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles was nominated in 1996 for the Edgar Award Best Critical / Biographical Work.