Gene Stratton-Porter was an American author and naturalist. Stratton-Porter's best known works are Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost. The novel Freckles is set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana. The story is about an orphaned boy who becomes known only as "Freckles".
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Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 –1924) 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 best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have 50 million readers around the world. She used her position and income as a well-known author to support conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. Her novel A Girl of the Limberlost was adapted four times as a film, most recently in 1990 in a made-for-TV version.
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