Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) is the author of a much-loved series about an orphaned girl named Anne Shirley, beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Written in 1905, the novel was rejected by several publishers before its debut in 1908, when it became an immediate bestseller. Montgomery went on to publish twenty novels, as well as hundreds of short stories, poems, and an autobiography. Most of her work is set in the tiny province of Prince Edward Island, where to this day thousands of people come to see the island that Anne Shirley and L. M. Montgomery loved.
Photograph from Library and Archives Canada.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Uncle Richard’s New Year’s Dinner, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2021–2022
- A Redeeming Sacrifice, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2013–2014