L.M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30, 1874, in Clifton, prince Edward island, Canada. Although few women of that time received higher education, Maud attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and then Dalhousie University in Halifax. At seventeen, she went to Nova Scotia, to work for a newspaper, the Halifax Chronicle, and wrote for its evening edition, the Echo. But Maud came back to rural Prince Edward Island to teach, and lived with her grandmother at Cavendish. It is this experience along with the lives of her farmer and fisher folk neighbours, that came alive when she wrote her 'Anne' books, beginning with Anne of Green Gables in 1908. First published as a serial for a Sunday school paper, Anne of Green Gables quickly became a favourite of readers throughout the world, so much so that L. M. Montgomery published eight novels in all featuring Anne Shirley and her family. Maud also wrote the popular Emily of New Moon in 1923 followed by two sequels, and Pat of Silver Bush in 1933 with its sequel. She and her husband, the Rev. Ewen Macdonald, eventually moved to Ontario. L. M. Montgomery died in Toronto in 1942, but it is her early years of lush green Prince Edward Island that live on in the delighful adventures of the impetuous redhead, the stories Mark Twain called "the sweetest creation of child life yet written."

Anne of the Green gables has been translated into seventeen different languages, made into a number of movies, and has had continuing success as a stage play.

The success of these productions inspired The road to Avonlea- enchanting new tales based on characters created by Lucy Maud Montgomery for a television series as well as the new paperback editions. She is also the author of The Further Chronicles of Avonlea, After Many Days, Magic For Marigold, among others.