Porter (Author) 5,328 ratings Book 1 of 2: Pollyanna See all formats and editions Kindle 6.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 9.95 32 Used from 2.48 20 New from 4.42 2 Collectible from 10. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1920. Porter Pollyanna Paperback Novemby Eleanor H. Among her other books for children are Cross Currents (her first book, 1907), Six Star Ranch (1916), and The Turn of the Tide (1928). Porter’s first really successful book was Miss Billy (1911), followed by Miss Billy’s Decision (1912). In 1920, Mary Pickford starred in the first movie version of Pollyanna. In 1916, Helen Hayes starred in a Broadway production of the book. One million copies of the book were sold in 1913, the year in which it was published. Her most enduring book is Pollyanna, which became a part of the English language (we often call someone a “Pollyanna” when that person is unfailingly optimistic). Porter wrote for both children and adults, but it is primarily for her children’s books that she is remembered. Born Eleanor Hodgman in Littleton, New Hampshire on Decem, this young woman trained to be a singer at the New England Conservatory of Music, but turned to writing shortly after she was married to John Lyman Porter in 1892.
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