Annie Greene Brown

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Annie Greene Brown (also known as Annie G. Brown) was an American writer from the South. She was born on July 25, 1855, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Thomas Finley Greene and Virginia Owen Greene. She had several younger siblings, including Frances Nimmo Greene, who was also a writer. Her mother taught her at home, and she later studied at the Tuscaloosa Female College for two years, earning the Master of Arts degree with high honors.

She taught for two years in public schools and then two more years at a girls’ college in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Brown wrote Fireside Battles, a novel for girls about a family facing poverty after the father's death. The story shows how the daughter’s efforts help improve the family's situation and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each family member.

Brown also published short stories in The Youth's Companion and Harper's Magazine, along with various other sketches and essays in different publications. In 1881, she married Eugene Levert Brown in Tuscaloosa. They had a son, Eugene Levert (born 1885), and a daughter, Mary (born 1893), who died in childhood.

She was a Democrat and a member of the New Church. Annie Greene Brown lived mostly in Tuscaloosa, later moving to Chicago, Illinois, where she died on November 19, 1923.