Background
Porter, Gene Stratton Mistress was born in 1868 in on farm, Wabash Company, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Mark and Mary (Shellenbarger) Stratton.
Porter, Gene Stratton Mistress was born in 1868 in on farm, Wabash Company, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Mark and Mary (Shellenbarger) Stratton.
Private education.
Was 2 years editor camera department Recreation. 2 years on natural history staff of Outing. 4 years specialist in natural history photography on Photographic Times Annual Almanac.
Author and illustrator: The Song of the Cardinal, 1902.
Freckles, 1904; What I Have Done With Birds, 1907. At the Foot of the Rainbow, 1908.
A Girl of the Limberlost, 1909. Birds of the Bible, 1909.
Music of the Wild, 1910.
The Harvester, 1911. Moths of the Limberlost, 1912. Laddie, 1913; Michael O’Halloran, 1915.
Morning Face, 1916; Friends in Feathers, 1917.
A Daughter of the Land, 1918. Homing with the Birds, 1919. Her Father’s Daughter, 1921.
The Fire Bird (poetry), 1922.
The White Flag, 1923. Jesus of the Emerald, 1923.
Home: Los Angeles, California.
Married Charles Darwin Porter, 1886.