Author, Newspaper Editor, Teacher, Librarian.
Educated at Tuskaloosa Female College, she was a teacher and a librarian in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. She began writing for publication in various papers, eventually as columnist and women’s page editor of the Birmingham News, from which she resigned in 1913 to devote her time to writing. She was also a supporter of Birmingham Little Theater. Her first book was: LEGENDS of KING ARTHUR AND HIS COURT; Boston; Ginn & Co., 1901. The book was beautifully illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. This book was based on the book by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which Nimmo Greene made more readable for school aged children. In 1905, she co-authored a book with her school teacher cousin, Dolly Williams Kirk: WITH SPURS of GOLD: Heroes of Chivalry and Their Deeds; Boston; Little, Brown, & Co., 1905. These books were followed by several plays and novels, as well as school books for children, starting in 1918 with AMERICA FIRST and MY COUNTRY'S VOICE. Her books were used by Alabama schools throughout the 1920's.
In a newspaper interview in October, 1914, Nimmo Greene recounted the story of her first published work: a valentine verse which was illustrated with a little cupid made by her friend and roommate, Anne Goldthwaite, which they submitted to a magazine for publication.
The novels of Frances Nimmo Greene include:
THE DEVIL TO PAY; New York; Scribner, 1918.
ONE CLEAR CALL; New York; Scribner, 1914.
THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST; New York; Scribner, 1913.
INTO THE NIGHT: a Story of New Orleans; New York; Grossett & Dunlap, 1909.
Three of her novels and three stories (see IMDb.com) were made into films:
1924 The Right of the Strongest (story)
1922 One Clear Call (novel)
1920 The Devil to Pay (novel)
1919 The Little White Savage (story)
1916 Americans After All (Short)
1916 Expiation (Short)
Frances Nimmo Greene was the granddaughter of Anna Keeling Silvester (1797-1861) and John Owen (1786-1849). She was named for her great-grandmother, Frances Nimmo (1774-1833), who, along with her daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, John Owen, were early settlers of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Known as "Nimmo", Frances Nimmo Greene grew up in the Dr John Drish house in Tuscaloosa, where she and her family lived with her mother's aunt, Sarah Owen Drish, until Aunt Sarah died in 1884. A girlhood encounter with a ghost, experienced by Nimmo and her sister Mary, was recounted in the story "Death Lights in the Tower" by Kathryn Tucker Windham, in the book: 13 ALABAMA GHOSTS AND JEFFREY, first published in 1969.
Educated at Tuskaloosa Female College, she was a teacher and a librarian in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. She began writing for publication in various papers, eventually as columnist and women’s page editor of the Birmingham News, from which she resigned in 1913 to devote her time to writing. She was also a supporter of Birmingham Little Theater. Her first book was: LEGENDS of KING ARTHUR AND HIS COURT; Boston; Ginn & Co., 1901. The book was beautifully illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. This book was based on the book by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which Nimmo Greene made more readable for school aged children. In 1905, she co-authored a book with her school teacher cousin, Dolly Williams Kirk: WITH SPURS of GOLD: Heroes of Chivalry and Their Deeds; Boston; Little, Brown, & Co., 1905. These books were followed by several plays and novels, as well as school books for children, starting in 1918 with AMERICA FIRST and MY COUNTRY'S VOICE. Her books were used by Alabama schools throughout the 1920's.
In a newspaper interview in October, 1914, Nimmo Greene recounted the story of her first published work: a valentine verse which was illustrated with a little cupid made by her friend and roommate, Anne Goldthwaite, which they submitted to a magazine for publication.
The novels of Frances Nimmo Greene include:
THE DEVIL TO PAY; New York; Scribner, 1918.
ONE CLEAR CALL; New York; Scribner, 1914.
THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST; New York; Scribner, 1913.
INTO THE NIGHT: a Story of New Orleans; New York; Grossett & Dunlap, 1909.
Three of her novels and three stories (see IMDb.com) were made into films:
1924 The Right of the Strongest (story)
1922 One Clear Call (novel)
1920 The Devil to Pay (novel)
1919 The Little White Savage (story)
1916 Americans After All (Short)
1916 Expiation (Short)
Frances Nimmo Greene was the granddaughter of Anna Keeling Silvester (1797-1861) and John Owen (1786-1849). She was named for her great-grandmother, Frances Nimmo (1774-1833), who, along with her daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, John Owen, were early settlers of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Known as "Nimmo", Frances Nimmo Greene grew up in the Dr John Drish house in Tuscaloosa, where she and her family lived with her mother's aunt, Sarah Owen Drish, until Aunt Sarah died in 1884. A girlhood encounter with a ghost, experienced by Nimmo and her sister Mary, was recounted in the story "Death Lights in the Tower" by Kathryn Tucker Windham, in the book: 13 ALABAMA GHOSTS AND JEFFREY, first published in 1969.
Author, Newspaper Editor, Teacher, Librarian.
Educated at Tuskaloosa Female College, she was a teacher and a librarian in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. She began writing for publication in various papers, eventually as columnist and women’s page editor of the Birmingham News, from which she resigned in 1913 to devote her time to writing. She was also a supporter of Birmingham Little Theater. Her first book was: LEGENDS of KING ARTHUR AND HIS COURT; Boston; Ginn & Co., 1901. The book was beautifully illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. This book was based on the book by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which Nimmo Greene made more readable for school aged children. In 1905, she co-authored a book with her school teacher cousin, Dolly Williams Kirk: WITH SPURS of GOLD: Heroes of Chivalry and Their Deeds; Boston; Little, Brown, & Co., 1905. These books were followed by several plays and novels, as well as school books for children, starting in 1918 with AMERICA FIRST and MY COUNTRY'S VOICE. Her books were used by Alabama schools throughout the 1920's.
In a newspaper interview in October, 1914, Nimmo Greene recounted the story of her first published work: a valentine verse which was illustrated with a little cupid made by her friend and roommate, Anne Goldthwaite, which they submitted to a magazine for publication.
The novels of Frances Nimmo Greene include:
THE DEVIL TO PAY; New York; Scribner, 1918.
ONE CLEAR CALL; New York; Scribner, 1914.
THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST; New York; Scribner, 1913.
INTO THE NIGHT: a Story of New Orleans; New York; Grossett & Dunlap, 1909.
Three of her novels and three stories (see IMDb.com) were made into films:
1924 The Right of the Strongest (story)
1922 One Clear Call (novel)
1920 The Devil to Pay (novel)
1919 The Little White Savage (story)
1916 Americans After All (Short)
1916 Expiation (Short)
Frances Nimmo Greene was the granddaughter of Anna Keeling Silvester (1797-1861) and John Owen (1786-1849). She was named for her great-grandmother, Frances Nimmo (1774-1833), who, along with her daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, John Owen, were early settlers of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Known as "Nimmo", Frances Nimmo Greene grew up in the Dr John Drish house in Tuscaloosa, where she and her family lived with her mother's aunt, Sarah Owen Drish, until Aunt Sarah died in 1884. A girlhood encounter with a ghost, experienced by Nimmo and her sister Mary, was recounted in the story "Death Lights in the Tower" by Kathryn Tucker Windham, in the book: 13 ALABAMA GHOSTS AND JEFFREY, first published in 1969.
Educated at Tuskaloosa Female College, she was a teacher and a librarian in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. She began writing for publication in various papers, eventually as columnist and women’s page editor of the Birmingham News, from which she resigned in 1913 to devote her time to writing. She was also a supporter of Birmingham Little Theater. Her first book was: LEGENDS of KING ARTHUR AND HIS COURT; Boston; Ginn & Co., 1901. The book was beautifully illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. This book was based on the book by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which Nimmo Greene made more readable for school aged children. In 1905, she co-authored a book with her school teacher cousin, Dolly Williams Kirk: WITH SPURS of GOLD: Heroes of Chivalry and Their Deeds; Boston; Little, Brown, & Co., 1905. These books were followed by several plays and novels, as well as school books for children, starting in 1918 with AMERICA FIRST and MY COUNTRY'S VOICE. Her books were used by Alabama schools throughout the 1920's.
In a newspaper interview in October, 1914, Nimmo Greene recounted the story of her first published work: a valentine verse which was illustrated with a little cupid made by her friend and roommate, Anne Goldthwaite, which they submitted to a magazine for publication.
The novels of Frances Nimmo Greene include:
THE DEVIL TO PAY; New York; Scribner, 1918.
ONE CLEAR CALL; New York; Scribner, 1914.
THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST; New York; Scribner, 1913.
INTO THE NIGHT: a Story of New Orleans; New York; Grossett & Dunlap, 1909.
Three of her novels and three stories (see IMDb.com) were made into films:
1924 The Right of the Strongest (story)
1922 One Clear Call (novel)
1920 The Devil to Pay (novel)
1919 The Little White Savage (story)
1916 Americans After All (Short)
1916 Expiation (Short)
Frances Nimmo Greene was the granddaughter of Anna Keeling Silvester (1797-1861) and John Owen (1786-1849). She was named for her great-grandmother, Frances Nimmo (1774-1833), who, along with her daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, John Owen, were early settlers of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Known as "Nimmo", Frances Nimmo Greene grew up in the Dr John Drish house in Tuscaloosa, where she and her family lived with her mother's aunt, Sarah Owen Drish, until Aunt Sarah died in 1884. A girlhood encounter with a ghost, experienced by Nimmo and her sister Mary, was recounted in the story "Death Lights in the Tower" by Kathryn Tucker Windham, in the book: 13 ALABAMA GHOSTS AND JEFFREY, first published in 1969.
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