Eleanor H. PorterEleanor Emily Hodgman Porter, American writer, was born in New Hampshire on 19 December 1868. She was the single child of Francis Fletcher Hodgman, a pharmacist and Llewella Woolson Hodgman. She was musically talented from early childhood and traine as a singer but later bent to writing. In 1892, she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts, after which she began writing and publishing her short stories and, later, novels. Porter wrote mainly children's literature and adventure stories, and romance fiction. She printed her first novel Cross Currents in 1907. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), followed by a sequel Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Porter's other books include the best-sellers Just David (1916), The Road to Understanding (1917), Oh, Money! Money! (1918), Dawn (1919), and Mary-Marie (1920). She was lived by her husband with whom she had no children, though she revealed a great sympathy for children in her literary work. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 21 May 1920. Read More Read Less