Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maude Montgomery (1874-1942) was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the setting for Anne of Green Gables . She left to attend college but returned to Prince Edward Island to teach. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan MacDonald. Anne of Green Gables , the first in a series of Anne books by Montgomery, was published in 1908 to immediate success and continues to be a perennial favorite.