Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.
Gene Stratton-Porter Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 17th August, 1863 |
| Death: | 6th December, 1924 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Naturalist, Novelist, Photographer, Producer |
About
Gene Stratton-Porter was born in Lagro, Indiana, USA. She was an American novelist, naturalist, nature photographer, and one of the first women to form a movie studio and production company, Gene Stratton-Porter Productions, Inc. She wrote several best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCall's. Her novel A Girl of the Limberlost was adapted four times as a film, most recently in 1990 in a made-for-TV version. In addition to writing works of natural history, she became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in the Limberlost Swamp, one of the last of the wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. She wrote several novels include: The Song of the Cardinal, Freckle, At the Foot of the Rainbow, A Girl of the Limberlost, The Harvester, Michael O'Halloran, A Daughter of the Land, The White Flag, The Keeper of the Bees, and The Magic Garden.
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