{"id":2054,"date":"2014-11-11T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2014-11-11T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T21:03:32","slug":"stratton-porter-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/stratton-porter-gene\/","title":{"rendered":"Stratton-Porter, Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2056 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ph_gsp.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Stratton-Porter\" width=\"140\" height=\"187\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2058 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_freck.jpg\" alt=\"Freckles\" width=\"120\" height=\"184\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2059 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_gene.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Stratton Porter\" width=\"120\" height=\"186\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2060 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bk_keep.jpg\" alt=\"Keeper of the Bees\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>On August 17, 1863, Geneva Grace Stratton (Gene), also known as the &#8220;Bird Lady,&#8221; was born in Wabash County, Indiana. She was the youngest of twelve children. She played many other roles in her lifetime, such as naturalist, photographer, natural-born storyteller, and writer.<\/p>\n<p>Stratton met her husband, Charles Darwin Porter, a pharmacist, while recovering from a skull fracture. They married in 1886 and had one child, Jeannette.<\/p>\n<p>Gene&#8217;s first book was <em>The Song of the Cardinal<\/em> in 1903. Many other works followed, among them favorites of a bygone generation such as <em>Freckles<\/em>, <em>Girl of the Limberlost<\/em>, and <em>Michael O&#8217;Hallaran<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During World War II, Gene moved with her family to California and began a film company that produced her books as movies. She wrote editorials and stories and her photos appeared in many magazines across the country. In 1924, Stratton was tragically killed when a trolley car hit the limo she was riding in. At the time of her death, her book sales had topped ten million copies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Terri DeGezelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 17, 1863, Geneva Grace Stratton (Gene), also known as the &#8220;Bird Lady,&#8221; was born in Wabash County, Indiana. She was the youngest of twelve children. She played many other roles in her lifetime, such as naturalist, photographer, natural-born storyteller, and writer. 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