Homer Greene

Born in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, in 1853, he grew up in the region that would shape much of his writing. As a student he attended Riverview Military Academy in Poughkeepsie and later Union College, where he wrote actively for college publications. His poem What My Lover Said, first published in 1875, became his best-known piece and was widely reprinted.

Alongside his writing, he built a career in law in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and served for a term as district attorney of Wayne County. He was remembered not only as a poet but also as a novelist and storyteller, with works including The Blind Brother, Pickett's Gap, A Lincoln Conscript, and The Riverpark Rebellion and A Tale of the Tow-Path.

His work is closely tied to northeastern Pennsylvania, especially its towns, people, and working landscapes. That local grounding gives his fiction and verse a strong sense of place, making him an appealing author for listeners who enjoy rediscovered American writing from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.