Annie Greene Nelson

Annie Greene Nelson (December 1, 1902 – December 23, 1993) was a writer and playwright. She was the first African American woman in South Carolina to publish a novel.

Early life Annie Greene was born at the Parrott Plantation in Darlington County, South Carolina, on December 5, 1902, to Sylvester and Nancy Greene (née Muldow). Sylvester Greene was a sharecropper and a music teacher.

Writing career In 1925, Nelson first published a poem, "What Do You Think of Mother", in the Palmetto Leader. She later wrote three novels, After the Storm (1942), The Dawn Appears (1944), and Don't Walk on My Dreams (1961). Nelson wrote two plays, Weary Fireside Blues, which was produced off-Broadway, and The Parrots' Plantation, which was staged at Brooklyn College. She discusses the civil rights movement in Don't Walk on My Dreams and about violence by Whites against Blacks in her autobiography.

Nelson married twice, to John Plunkett and then to Edward Nelson Sr. 1989: Lucy Hampton Bostick Award, Friends of the Richland County Public Library 1989: Governor Carroll A. Campbell Jr. signed a proclamation honoring her for her literary accomplishments 1982: Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Columbia Urban League 1980–81: Budweiser of Columbia Community Drama Award P. Scott Kennedy Award for her contributions to African American theater