Gene Stratton-Porter





Gene Stratton-Porter

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born
in Wabash County, Indiana, The United States
August 17, 1863

died
December 06, 1924

gender
female

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About this author

She 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 laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. Although there is evidence that her first book was "Strike at Shane's", which...more


Average rating: 4.10 · 15,909 ratings · 1,827 reviews · 39 distinct works · Similar authors
A Girl of the Limberlost (L...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 7,595 ratings — published 1909 — 101 editions
Freckles (Limberlost, #1)
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 3,668 ratings — published 1904 — 81 editions
Laddie: A True Blue Story
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 1,572 ratings — published 1913 — 51 editions
The Keeper of the Bees
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 802 ratings — published 1925 — 6 editions
The Harvester
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 1911 — 48 editions
Michael O'Halloran
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1915 — 29 editions
A Daughter Of The Land
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1918 — 38 editions
Her Father's Daughter
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1921 — 32 editions
The Magic Garden
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1927 — 5 editions
At the Foot of the Rainbow
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1907 — 40 editions
More books by Gene Stratton-Porter…
“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

“I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots.
After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.”
Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

“...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people...”
Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

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