Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), often published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist whose fiction made Prince Edward Island one of the most recognisable literary landscapes in the English-speaking world. Born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, and raised largely in Cavendish, Montgomery drew deeply on rural community life, memory, landscape, family feeling, imagination, and the emotional education of young women. Her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables brought her international fame and introduced Anne Shirley, one of the most enduring figures in children's and classic literature.Montgomery's achievement extends well beyond Anne herself. She wrote twenty novels and hundreds of short stories and poems, creating a body of work that includes the Anne books, the Emily of New Moon trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea. Her fiction remains valued for its vivid sense of place, strong characterisation, emotional clarity, humour, romantic feeling, and attention to the inner lives of girls and women. For readers of classic Canadian fiction, women's writing, regional literature, children's classics, and early twentieth-century short fiction, Montgomery remains a major and highly discoverable author.