Biography

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author with roots in Scotland. She lost her mother at an early age, and was raised by her maternal grandparents. She began to keep a diary and discovered at the age of 10 that she could write poetry. After college she became a teacher but kept writing. In 1908 her first novel, "Anne of Green Gables", was published after having been rejected by several publishers. It was a success. She followed up with a whole series of novels about Anne, and many other stories as well, including a second series starting with "Emily of New Moon". The novels about Anne and Emily are semi-autobiographical and contain many of her own memories from the 1880s and 1890s on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Her novels have been published in over 40 languages, and Anne is known all over the world. Mongomery's books are particularly popular in Japan.
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She died in Toronto, but was laid to rest in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Flowers and gifts from fans cover her grave every summer.

Pictured on an 8¢ Canadian commemorative postage stamp issued in her honor, 15 May 1975.

Three sons Chester(1912), Hugh Alexander (1914) who died at birth, and Stuart (1915)

Attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1895-1896, and studied English literature.

[about having written many other books, which never became as successful as "Anne of Green Gables":] "If I'm to be dragged at Anne's chariot wheels the rest of my life, I'll bitterly repent having 'created' her."

In the end I never set out deliberately to write a book. It just 'happened.' One spring I was looking over my notebook of plots for a short serial I had been asked to write for a Sunday School paper. I found a faded entry, written many years before: 'Elderly couple apply to orphan asylum for a boy. By mistake a girl is sent them.' I thought this would do. The result was "Anne of Green Gables". I thought girls in their teens might like it. But grandparents, school and college boys, old pioneers in the Australian bush, Mohammedan girls in India, missionaries in China, monks in remote monasteries, premiers of Great Britain, and redheaded people all over the world have written to me telling me how they loved Anne and her successors.

[on a 1919 film version of 'Anne of Green Gables'] It was a pretty little play well photographed, but I think if I hadn't already known it was from my book, that I would never have recognized it. The landscape and folks were 'New England', never P.E.I...A skunk and an American flag were introduced - both equally unknown in PE Island. I could have shrieked with rage over the latter. Such crass, blatant Yankeeism!