Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born November 30, 1874, in Canada and began publishing in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables—a novel about an orphan named Anne Shirley that became an immediate success and brought her international attention. Over her career she published 20 novels, more than a thousand short stories and poems, and countless essays. Most of her fiction unfolded on Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, and readers arrived in such numbers that Green Gables farm became a literary landmark and eventually the heart of a national park. She died April 24, 1942, but her diaries and le…