GENE STRATTON-PORTER - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 49199

GENE STRATTON-PORTER
Signed b/w bust photo by Hoover Art Studios of bestselling author Gene Stratton-Porter in a black evening gown
Photograph signed "Gene Stratton-Porter". B/w, 7x9¼, printed on cardstock. Photo by Hoover Art Studios of Los Angeles, with black ink photo credit stamp on verso. Best-selling American author, poet and naturalist Stratton-Porter (1863-1924), born Geneva Stratton, began her career as a wildlife photographer but, with the publication of a short story in 1901, decided to pursue a career in fiction. She became known for sentimental tales, where she expressed the belief that virtue was to be found in contact with nature and not in urban life. This was in contrast to the work of naturalistic authors of the period, whose work she reportedly detested. But it was a sentiment that got her on the bestseller lists, with novels like Freckles(1904), A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) and The Harvester (1911). Stratton-Porter organized a film company to adapt her novels into movies in 1922, two years before her death. But her ambitions survived her; her novels were adapted into movies on the big screen and TV over 20 times between 1917 and 1992. Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost were adapted a full four times each; Keeper of the Bees, Michael O'Halloran and Laddie three times each; and Harvester two times. Lightly toned and bowed. Siganture has low contrast but is legible. Rounded corners. Light chip in bottom left corner. Left edge is irregular. Otherwise in fine condition.