Pollyanna Pollyanna Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 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: a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. The book was such a success that Porter soon produced a sequel, "Pollyanna Grows Up" (1915). Eleven more "Pollyanna" sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including "Pollyanna Plays the Game" by Colleen L. Reece,
Albert S. Porter for years he had forced them to kick back two percent of their pay. That November he was defeated for reelection. As a result of a grand jury investigation in 1977, he pleaded guilty to 19 counts of theft in office for the kickback scheme and was fined $10,000 and placed on probation for 2 years. Porter married Genevieve Shaveyco in 1949. They had two sons (Lee and Alan) and one daughter (Carol). Albert S. Porter Albert S. Porter (November 4, 1904 – January 7, 1979) was an American politician from Ohio. Porter was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, to Albert