The Song of the Cardinal: Fully Illustrated Edition - Softcover

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world. She used her position and income as a well-known author to support conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. Her novel A Girl of the Limberlost was adapted four times as a film, most recently in 1990 in a made-for-TV version. Her novels include: The Song of the Cardinal, 1903 Freckles, 1904 At the Foot of the Rainbow, 1907 A Girl of the Limberlost, 1909 The Harvester, 1911 Laddie, 1913 Michael O'Halloran, 1915 A Daughter of the Land, 1918 Her Father's Daughter, 1921 The White Flag, 1923 The Keeper of the Bees, 1925 The Magic Garden, 1927 (Wikipedia)