Pollyanna is a best-selling novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of
children's literature with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with
the same very optimistic outlook. Pollyanna has been adapted for film several times. Some of
the best known are Disney's 1960 version starring child actress Hayley Mills who won a special
Oscar for the role and the 1920 version starring Mary Pickford. The book was such a success
that Porter soon produced a sequel Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). The sequel Pollyanna Grows Up is
the only one written by Porter herself the numerous later additions to the Pollyanna franchise
were the work of other authors. Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (1868-1920) was an American
novelist.
