[4][5] In addition, Greene organized the library division of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History.

[10] Greene was educated at home by her mother and at the Tuscaloosa Female College,[1] which she attended two years,[2] leaving school at age of 16.

[2] While teaching in a mining town in north Alabama, she conceived the idea of writing sketches for publication.

[11] In 1906, while serving as principal of the Capitol Hill School in Montgomery, Greene was named as temporary secretary of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History.

[12] In 1907,[b] Greene resigned as a teacher to become Assistant in charge of Library Extension, Department of Archives and History, in Montgomery,[13] a position she held for one year.

[2] Greene's first novel, Into the Night, published by the Crowells, was a story of modern New Orleans, dealing with a Mafia mystery.

Other novels, The Right of the Strongest, One Clear Call, The Devil to Pay, followed in quick succession, all published by Scribner's.

[10] Versatile as she was -novelist, playwright, journalist, poet- the phase of her work in literature that stood out pre-eminently was that of her books for children.

The popularity of this book was so great that Greene and her cousin, Dolly Williams Kirk, whose poems had magazine publication, brought out in collaboration, a volume of stories of chivalry, With Spurs of Gold.

[10] Viewed as a synthetic whole, and taken in conjunction with her earlier books on chivalry, the scope of her series of readers, American Ideals, was of an educative value beyond anything ever done before in this line.

[10] Months of negotiation were required before Louis B. Mayer obtained the film rights to the Greene book, One Clear Call, as arrangements had already been made for its production on the theater stage.

[20] In 1922, Greene made an unsuccessful run for a seat on the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee.