L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and raised by her maternal grandparents after her mother's early death. She worked as a teacher and journalist before publishing Anne of Green Gables in 1908, after the manuscript had been rejected by several publishers. The novel was an immediate international success, and Montgomery went on to write seven sequels following Anne from girlhood through marriage and motherhood, along with numerous other novels and short story collections. She married Reverend Ewan Macdonald in 1911 and moved to Ontario, though Prince Edward Island remained the imaginative center of her fiction throughout her life. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Anne of Green Gables.