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Lucy Maud Montgomery

1874 - 1942

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Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Most of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site—namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucy Maud Montgomery is the 377th most popular writer (down from 373rd in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Canada (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Writer.

Lucy Maud Montgomery is most famous for her novel, Anne of Green Gables.

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Among writers, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 377 out of 7,302. Before her are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Mikhail Sholokhov, Jean Genet, Theocritus, Lorenzo Valla, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. After her are Salman Rushdie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Margaret Mitchell, Appian, Karl May, and Sayyid Qutb.

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Among people born in 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 18. Before her are Sunjong of Korea, Chaim Weizmann, Edward Thorndike, Carl Bosch, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Lou Henry Hoover. After her are António Egas Moniz, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Shackleton, August Krogh, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Alexander Kolchak. Among people deceased in 1942, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 13. Before her are Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, and Anton Drexler. After her are Fritz Todt, Robert Bosch, William G. Morgan, Franz Boas, Irène Némirovsky, and Bruno Schulz.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 15 out of 1,622. Before her are Christopher Plummer (1929), Jordan Peterson (1962), James Cameron (1954), William Giauque (1895), Frank Gehry (1929), and Jim Carrey (1962). After her are Michael J. Fox (1961), Erving Goffman (1922), Jack L. Warner (1892), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), Glenn Gould (1932), and Margaret Atwood (1939).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Lucy Maud Montgomery ranks 1. After her are Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), Alice Munro (1931), A. E. van Vogt (1912), David Morrell (1943), Robin Sharma (1965), Brian Tracy (1944), Antonine Maillet (1929), Shulamith Firestone (1945), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), and Harold Russell (1914).

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