1912. Porter, American novelist and creator of the Pollyanna series of books that generated a popular phenomenon. A masterpiece, Pollyanna tells the sentimental tale of a most improbable heroine, a young girl whose glad game of always looking for and finding the bright side of things somehow reforms her antagonists, restores hope to the hopeless, and generally rights the wrongs of the world. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.