There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Indeed as journalist Kathy Hickman writes Green "stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits. Legacy
In 2002 Buffalo Literary Walking Tours began an annual series of weekend walking tours. "I only found out afterward that some people were a little upset with it because they don't want to hear about women competing with the master" Higgins said.

Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel. Anna Katharine Green (November 11 1846 – April 11 1935) was an American poet and novelist. ".