Gene Stratton-Porter
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born
August 17, 1863
died
December 06, 1924
gender
female
place of birth
Wabash County, Indiana, The United States
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 "...more
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A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 4.18 — 1,224 ratings — published 1909 60 editions |
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Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 4.08 — 544 ratings — published 1904 40 editions |
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Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 4.29 — 459 ratings — published 1913 22 editions |
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The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 4.22 — 249 ratings — published 1991 2 editions |
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The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 4.16 — 185 ratings — published 1911 34 editions |
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Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 4.04 — 78 ratings — published 1997 24 editions |
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The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 4.08 — 75 ratings — published 1927 4 editions |
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Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 3.56 — 84 ratings — published 2004 10 editions |
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A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 3.58 — 72 ratings — published 2007 31 editions |
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At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter avg rating 3.65 — 40 ratings — published 1978 13 editions |
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"For every bad man and woman I have ever known, I have met . . . an overwhelming number of thoroughly clean and decent people who still believe in God and cherish high ideals, and it is upon the lives of these people that I base what I write. To contend that this does not produce a picture true to life is idiocy. It does. It produces a picture true to ideal life; to the best that good men and good women can do at level best.
I care very little for the . . . critics who proclaim that there is no such thing as a moral man, and that my pictures of life are sentimental and idealized. They are! And I glory in them! They are straight, living pictures from the lives of men and women of morals, honor, and loving kindness. . . .
Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life."
— Gene Stratton-Porter (Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of Her Life and Work)
I care very little for the . . . critics who proclaim that there is no such thing as a moral man, and that my pictures of life are sentimental and idealized. They are! And I glory in them! They are straight, living pictures from the lives of men and women of morals, honor, and loving kindness. . . .
Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life."
— Gene Stratton-Porter (Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of Her Life and Work)
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