Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 – 1924) was an American author, early naturalist, and nature photographer.

Gene Stratton-Porter’s 1907 novel, At the Foot of the Rainbow, uses fishing as a backdrop to tell the story of Jimmy Malone and Dannie Macnoun, who is in love with Jimmy’s wife, Mary.

On 24 June 1917, Arthur Linfoot wrote that he “lay awake until nearly midnight reading” this book.