Porter, Gene Stratton (1863-1924)

US writer. She wrote nature articles and the novels Freckles 1904 and A Girl of the Limberlost 1909.

Other works include The Harvester 1911, based on her father, and Laddie 1913, an idealized portrait of her brother Leander, who drowned at the age of 18. Later novels were Michael O'Halloran 1915 and A Daughter of the Land 1918.

She lived with her husband in a cabin on the edge of a swamp called the Limberlost, which provided the setting for much of her work.