Eleanor H. Porter wrote mainly children's literature, adventure stories, and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is "Pollyanna" (1913), followed by a sequel, "Pollyanna Grows Up" (1915). Her adult novels include "The Turn of the Tide" (1908), "The Road to Understanding" (1917), "Oh Money! Money!" (1918), "Dawn" (1919), "Keith's Dark Tower" (1919), "Mary Marie" (1920) and "Sister Sue" (1921); her short-story collections include "Across the Years" (c. 1919), "Money, Love and Kate" (1923), and "Little Pardner" (1926). Porter achieved considerable commercial success: "Pollyanna" ranked eighth among best-selling novels in the United States during 1913, second during 1914, and fourth during 1915 (with 47
James Ezekiel Porter Weld, Maine in Porter's home county was named in his honor as well. One of Porter's personal Smith & Wesson revolvers that he carried while on duty is in the collections at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. James E. Porter was featured as a character in Donald F. Myers' novel entitled "Custer's Gatling Guns: What If He Had Taken His Machine Guns to the Little Bighorn?" and also in Frederick J. Chiaventone's "A Road We Do Not Know: A Novel of Custer at Little Bighorn" and Romain Wilhelmsen's "The Curse of Destiny: The Betrayal of General George Armstrong ..." James