The Keeper of the Bees Set in the author s adopted home of California in the s this is Gene Stratton Porter s last novel a story filled with wisdom a love of nature and her own abiding optimism In it a Master Bee Ke

Set in the author s adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton Porter s last novel, a story filled with wisdom, a love of nature, and her own abiding optimism In it a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California restore a wounded World War I veteran to health.
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She 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 of the best selling novels and well received columns in magazines of the day.Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette.She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies Although there is evidence that her first book was Strike at Shane s , which was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented She eventually wrote over 20 books.