GENE STRATTON-PORTER

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'Gene Stratton-Porter' (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day.
Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette.
She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the labratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. Her first novel, ''The Song of the Cardinal'' met with great commercial success. Her novels ''Freckles'' and ''A Girl of the Limberlost'' are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing ecosystems she loved and documented. She eventually wrote over 20 books.
Catherine Woolley, author of the "Ginnie and Geneva" series of children's books, may have named her character of Geneva Porter after Geneva Stratton-Porter.
Her last novel, ''Her Father's Daughter,'' was set in Los Angeles, California to which she had moved in the 1920s to expand her business ventures into the movie industry. She was engaged in the planning of a home and work place on Catalina Island. She and her driver, died in Los Angeles in 1924 in a traffic accident.
A building at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, IN is named in her honor. A rest stop along U.S. Interstate 90 also shares her name. Her Wildflower Woods home is now a museum operated by the Indiana State Museum.

Contents

Novels

Nature Books

Poetry and Essays

External links

Novels

★ ''The Song of the Cardinal'', 1903

★ Freckles, 1904

★ ''At the Foot of the Rainbow'', 1907

★ A Girl of the Limberlost, 1909

★ ''Laddie'', 1913

★ ''Michael O'Halloran'', 1915

★ ''A Daughter of the Land'', 1918

★ ''The Keeper of the Bees'', 1925

★ ''Her Father's Daughter'', 1921

★ ''The Harvester'', 1911

★ ''The White Flag'', 1923

★ ''The Magic Garden'', 1927

Nature Books

★ ''What I Have Done with Birds'', 1907

★ ''Birds of the Bible'', 1909

★ ''Music of the Wild'', 1910

★ ''Moths of the Limberlost'', 1912

★ ''Birds of the Limberlost'', 1914

★ ''Homing with the Birds'', 1919

★ ''Wings'', 1923

★ ''Tales You Won't Believe'', 1925

★ ''After the Flood'', 1912

Poetry and Essays

★ ''Morning Face'', 1916

★ ''The Fire Bird'', 1922

★ ''Jesus of the Emerald'', 1923

★ ''Let Us Highly Resolve'', 1927

★ ''Field o’ My Dreams: The Poetry of Gene-Stratton Porter'', 2007

External links

★ Genealogical information

★ Photo

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★ Wildflower Woods

★ Field o’ My Dreams: The Poetry of Gene-Stratton Porter