Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924

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Other Identifiers
VIAF: 100244177
Wikidata: Q5531480
Library of congress: n 79127897
Sources of Information
  • Her What I have done ... 1907.
  • Access Indiana Information Network, Official Website of the State of Indiana, September 13, 2000:Gene Stratton-Porter's Life & Home in Geneva, Indiana link (Gene (born Geneva) Stratton-Porter is one of Indiana's most famous female authors; born near Wabash, Indiana in 1863, she lived until 1924)
  • Indiana Historical Society Website, September 13, 2000:Gene Stratton-Porter page (Geneva Grace Stratton married Charles D. Porter; The couple's only child, Jeannette, was born in 1887; in 1920 she moved to Calif. where she organized her own movie company and based a number of films on her books;
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Wikipedia description:

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924), born Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American writer, nature photographer, and naturalist from Wabash County, Indiana. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company, Gene Stratton Porter Productions, in 1924. Stratton-Porter wrote several best-selling novels in addition to columns for national magazines, such as McCall's and Good Housekeeping, among others. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, including Braille, and at their peak in the 1910s attracted an estimated 50 million readers. Eight of her novels, including A Girl of the Limberlost, were adapted into moving pictures. Stratton-Porter was also the subject of a one-woman play, A Song of the Wilderness. Two of her former homes in Indiana are state historic sites, the Limberlost State Historical Site in Geneva and the Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site on Sylvan Lake, near Rome City, Indiana.

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