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Kathryn Aalto

Kathryn Aalto is a historian and the author of Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World.

An author of blockbuster books and a pioneering photographer, she braved the wilderness to collect these moths and butterflies.

As Popular in Her Day as J.K. Rowling, Gene Stratton-Porter Wrote to the Masses About America’s Fading Natural Beauty

Despite her fame, you wouldn’t know about this beloved writer unless you visit the vanishing Midwestern landscape she helped save