Douglas G. Greene (born September 24, 1944) is an American historian, editor, and author. He is the son of Margaret Chindahl Greene and the Reverend George L. Greene, 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 was co-owner and editor of mystery publisher Crippen & Landru through 2017, continuing as senior editor beginning in 2018, 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.
Awards 1965 - The L. Frank Baum Memorial Award from The International Wizard of Oz Club 2001 - The Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers of America 2003 - The Malice Domestic Poirot Award 2003 - Baker Street Irregulars Distinguished Speaker 2007 - The George N. Dove Award from the Popular Culture Association for "serious study of mystery and crime fiction" 2016 - The Malice Domestic Amelia Award
Selected bibliography
Books written or edited by Douglas G. Greene:
1974 - The Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs of the Irish Wars 1976 - W. W. Denslow (with Michael Patrick Hearn) 1976 - Bibliographia Oziana (with Peter E. Hanff) revised edition, 1998. 1977 - Diaries of the Popish Plot 1978 - The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval 1980 - The Door to Doom and Other Detections 1983 - The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio’s Golden Age 1985 - The Wizard of Way Up and Other Wonders (with James E. Haff) 1987 - Death Locked In, An Anthology of Locked Room Stories (with Robert Adey) 1989 - The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh; reprinted as Alleyn and Others 1991 - Merrivale, March and Murder 1991 - Fell and Foul Play 1995 - John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles 1997 - Detection by Gaslight, The Great Victorian and Edwardian Detective Stories 1999 - The Dead Hand and other Uncollected Stories (with Tony Medawar) 1999 - Grand Guignol (in Japanese) 1999 - Classic Mystery Stories 2003 - Sissajig and Other Surprises (with Ruth Berman) 2003 - The Romance of the Secret Service Fund 2010 - The Adventures of Rogan Kincaid 2010 - The Complete Deteckative Memoirs of Philo Gubb, Esquire 2012 - Before the Fact 2014 - The Compleat Achievements of Luther Trant 2014 - The Compleat Adventures of Solange Fontaine 2015 - I Believe in Sherlock Holmes 2019 - The Cases of Lieutenant Timothy Trant (with Curtis Evans) 2020 - The Island of Coffins {with Tony Medawar}
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