American historian, editor, and author > Douglas G. Greene is by profession a university teacher and by avocation a dilettante. He graduated from the University of South Florida in 1966, and after obtaining the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago he joined the faculty of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1971. Since 1983, he has been Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Humanities. He is author and/or editor of eight books, including two posthumous collections of stories and plays by John Dickson Carr: *The Door to Doom* (1980) and *The Dead Sleep Lightly* (1983). He is married with two children. >>From "The Editors" autobiographical note in <a href=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20373490W/>*Death Locked In*</a>, 1987