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Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana , she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and had one daughter, Jeannette, with him. She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the Limberlost Swamp of Indiana , before she explored writing and produced her first novel, ''The Song of the Cardinal''. Her novel '' A Girl Of The Limberlost '' is set in the swamp she loved and explored. She eventually wrote 12 books. Catherine Woolley, author of the "Ginnie and Geneva" series of children's books, may have named her character of Geneva Porter after Geneva Stratton Porter. Porter moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1920s to join the movie business, and died there in 1924 when her limousine was hit by a trolley car. NOVELS
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