L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author whose fiction drew on the landscape of her native Prince Edward Island. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), has sold more than fifty million copies and been translated into thirty-six languages. Throughout her life, she wrote more than twenty novels across several beloved series - the further Anne books, the Emily of New Moon trilogy, the Story Girl books, and the Pat of Silver Bush novels - as well as standalones such as Jane of Lantern Hill. Her work remains among the best-loved in classic children's literature.