Freckles

Gene Stratton-Porter was an American author and naturalist. Stratton-Porter's best known works are Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost. The novel Freckles is set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana. The story is about an orphaned boy who becomes known only as "Freckles".

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 –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 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.