Doris Green grew up among a large cohort of  Wisconsin cousins, wise-cracking uncles, and laughing aunts who gathered regularly to play cards and swap stories. A family trip to the Cave of the Mounds in the 1950s launched a journey leading to several books.

Elsie’s Story: Chasing a Family Mystery (2018) puts an end to rumors about the mysterious death of a favorite aunt who died in 1960 at a small-town tavern Up North. The author uses the strategies of genealogy and journalism to finally answer the question: suicide, murder, or accident? (It’s available on Amazon and from Henschel Haus Publishing.)

A second edition of Wisconsin Underground: A Guide to Caves, Mines, and Tunnels in and Around the Badger State was published last year by Henschel Haus. A second edition of Minnesota Underground, co-authored with Greg Brick, is now complete. Green also authored Explore Wisconsin Rivers.

Green previously co-published and edited Wisconsin Community Banker magazine for the former Community Bankers of Wisconsin and was a communications specialist with the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She served as publisher at Magna Publications for its former book division and national newsletter  division. Green continues to write for national, regional, and local publications, and present at libraries, conferences, and other gatherings.

She earned her undergraduate degree in English and a master’s in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives with her husband, Michael H. Knight, and three distracting cats in a log house near Spring Green, Wisconsin.