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 ofGreen 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.
'The dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice' - Mark Twain