Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) was a Wabash County, Indiana, native who became a self-trained American author, nature photographer, and naturalist. Stratton-Porter wrote several best-selling novels in addition to columns for national magazines. Her best known novels Freckles, A Girl of the Limberlost, and The Harvester are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of northeast Indiana. Stratton-Port...