- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGeneva Stratton
- Nickname
- Jeannette Stratton Porter
- Born the daughter of a Methodist minister, Gene was the youngest of 12 children. Gene got her start when she sent bird and animal photographs to "Recreation" magazine. The magazine was so impressed, they asked her to write for them. She also wrote for "Outing" magazine. At this point, she turned to writing fiction.
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- SpouseCharles D. Porter(1886 - ?) (1 daughter, Jeannette (b. 1887))
- Children
- RelativesGene Stratton-Porter Monroe(Grandchild)
- Grandmother of Gene Stratton-Porter Monroe.
- Gene Stratton-Porter's son-in-law, James Leo Meehan adapted adapted several of her novels for the screen, including Michael O'Halloran (1923), A Girl of the Limberlost (1924), The Keeper of the Bees (1925), Laddie (1926), The Magic Garden (1927), and The Harvester (1927).
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