Pollyanna Whittier appears in Alan Moore's comic "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", Volume 1. She is shown to retain her optimistic outlook despite being raped by the character Griffin. 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
A Person of Interest (novel) the bomber. The novel closes with Lee now more clearly aware and understanding of the mistakes he has made in his life. A Person of Interest (novel) A Person of Interest is a 2008 novel written by the American writer Susan Choi. The novel takes its title from the law enforcement term "person of interest", and draws inspiration from the activities of Theodore Kaczynski. The novel begins with a deadly explosion in the office of a successful mathematics professor at a midwestern university. The neighbouring office houses Lee, a tenured but near-retirement professor who, until the bomb, is slowly drifting