Jean stratton porter biography
Jean stratton porter biography
Gene stratton porter biography...
Stratton-Porter, Gene (1863–1924)
American writer and naturalist who publicized her concern for the threatened wildlife habitats of North America through enormously successful magazine columns, novels, photograph collections, and films. Name variations: Gene Stratton Porter.
Born Geneva Grace Stratton on August 17, 1863, in Wabash County, Indiana; died on December 6, 1924, in Los Angeles, California; daughter of Mark Stratton (a farmer and minister) and Mary (Schallenberger) Stratton; left Wabash high school without a degree, 1883; married Charles Darwin Porter (a chemist), on April 21, 1886; children: daughter Jeanette Porter-Meehan (b.
1888).
Began publishing photographs and nature essays in magazines (1900); published first book, The Song of the Cardinal (1903); was a bestselling fiction author and sought-after columnist (1905); began financing and producing films based on her work (1922).
Selected writings:
The Song of the Cardinal: A Love Story (Bobbs-Merrill, 190