Lucy Maud Montgomery, publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. During her writing career she published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Montgomery was honoured by being the first female in Canada to be named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England and by being invested in the Order of the British Empire in 1935. Anne of Green Gables is said to be one of the mo